UNEMPLOYMENT IN NEW GRADUATES YOUNG: HEIDEGGERIAN HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
Unemployment and youth, unemployment, phenomenological research, Heideggerian hermeneutics
The number of unemployed youth has grown considerably over the past few years, rising to more than the number of unemployed adults. This study arose from the need to broaden the reflection about the unemployment in young graduates, emphasizing the speech of the participants of the research. Starting from this assumption, the problem of this research was to question the meaning of being devoid of a place that represents "stability", the work, moment that usually generates anguish, fear and insecurity. For this, the objective was to understand the experience of young graduates who were in the experience of unemployment, from the Heideggerian phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective. This approach allows prioritizing the understanding of human existence through the senses that the being attributes to its experience and reveals them through language. Four interviews were conducted with youngsters between the ages of 23 and 29 years. The analysis of the narratives was carried out from the hermeneutical method, in the light of the ideas of the philosopher Martin Heidegger and scholars of his philosophy. The results revealed that the desire of young people to carry out their activities permeates their worldviews, making their lives a consequence of the ways that training provided them. The senses associated with the exercise of a formal occupation exclude the possibility of not exercising the activity. Reflections on the labor market, the capitalist mode of production, and sociological aspects of the context of higher education were also unveiled, reflecting the characteristics of the "Age of Technique". The insertion of the phenomenological perspective in the discussions on unemployment and work has broadened the understanding of being young in the contemporary world, since this reality presents demands and, as a consequence, opens space for new investigations and interventions.