The perezhivanie to due discouragement unemployment among young graduates: a historical-cultural approach
discouragement; unemployment; young; University education.
Youth unemployment is a constant in Brazil and in the world. In general, youth is the category most sensitive to crises, as well as the most exposed to the reality of unemployment and informality. In this context, despondency, that is, giving up for looking for an occupation reached in 2018, 2.4 million young people aged between 18 and 29 years, a number that tends to increase with the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, although discouragement has always been present among the youth segment, the academic debate on the subject is still restricted to a statistical definition and to propositions that point to investment in qualification as an alternative to breaking with the condition. However, contrary to this perspective, the presence of discouragement among young people with higher education is a reality that points to the need to understand this phenomenon beyond its description. Therefore, from the scope of the cultural-historical theory (CHT) founded by Vygotski, the aim of this work is to investigate the perezhivanie of discouragement in the face of unemployment among young people with higher education, through the reconstruction of the person's individual trajectory. youth with regard to the sphere of work, the characterization of the blocking of the young person's meaning and the actions that provide it, and apprehending the meanings, senses, emotions and actions that configure the reality of the youth who finds himself in discouragement. To do so, two young women in a state of despondency were accessed and five were conducted in depth with each of them through the use of the methodological strategy Trajectory Equifinality Model, which culminated in the construction of two case studies. The losses were transcribed and, based on them, the trajectory of each participant was reconstructed, an element that maintains the analysis of the experience of the despondency of each one determined by unemployment. Finally, the findings are discussed in the light of CHT and allow access to discouragement in its complexity so that more effective alternatives can be devised by the young person to deal with their situation at a microgenetic level, in addition to a social and political level, broader, enable a more accurate and contextualized understanding of the phenomenon