Willging Cathleen E, Quintero Gilbert A, Lilliott Elizabeth A
Youth Soc. 2014 Jan 1;46(1):3-29. doi: 10.1177/0044118X11423231.
We examine the experience of boredom and its relationship to troublemaking and drug use among rural youth in southwestern New Mexico. We draw on qualitative research with area youth to describe they think about drug use and they situate it within their social circumstances. We then locate youth drug use within globalized processes affecting this setting, including a local economic environment with limited educational and employment opportunities for youth. Drug use emerges as a common social practice that enables youth to ameliorate boredom, yet only some youth become known as troublemakers. Study findings offer insight into how dominant social institutions-schools and juvenile justice authorities-shape the construction of trouble from the perspectives of youth. We contend that boredom and troublemaking among rural youth are not simply age-appropriate forms of self-expression but instead represent manifestations of social position, political economic realities, and assessments of possible futures.
我们考察了新墨西哥州西南部农村青少年无聊情绪的体验,以及这种情绪与捣乱行为和吸毒之间的关系。我们借鉴对该地区青少年的定性研究,来描述他们对吸毒的看法,以及他们如何将吸毒置于自身社会环境之中。然后,我们将青少年吸毒置于影响这一环境的全球化进程中,其中包括当地经济环境,这里为青少年提供的教育和就业机会有限。吸毒成为一种常见的社会行为,使青少年能够缓解无聊情绪,但只有一些青少年被视为捣乱分子。研究结果为我们洞察主流社会机构——学校和少年司法当局——如何从青少年的角度塑造对捣乱行为的认知提供了见解。我们认为,农村青少年的无聊和捣乱行为并非仅仅是适合其年龄的自我表达方式,而是社会地位、政治经济现实以及对未来可能性评估的体现。