Perspectives d'avenir chez les jeunes atikamekws d'Opitciwan

• Main Author: Aubuchon, Marie-Pier
• Other Authors: Duhaime, Gérard
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: Université Laval 2016
• Subjects: edu; socio; Canada; Maurice; atikamekw
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27175

This sociology research project aims to shed light on the aspirations of the Atikamekw youth of Opitciwan; one of the three poverty struck Atikamekw communities in the Northern Saint-Maurice region of Québec, Canada. Its further aim is to discover the attitude of Atikamekw youth towards school education and employment. First, a brief portrait will be painted of the socio-economical, historical and political situation of the community. Then, the National Household Survey of 2011 statistics will be examined to define the socio-economical conditions of the community by paying a particular attention to the relationship between schooling, employment and income. This quantitative analysis will allow us to discover the dynamic of these three variables within the community of Opitciwan. Secondly, semi-structured interviews will be carried out with Opitciwan’s youth to identify their aspirations and motives. Our interview strategy will examine the reasoning of the participants’ aspirations such as the impressions they have of their possible future and how they conceive the achievement of their ambitions. Four socio-types will be created from this qualitative analysis to categorise the results and help facilitate their interpretation. The resulting socio-types are: the ambitious, the conscious-realistic, the insecure and the passive type. Finally, the quantitative and qualitative analysis will be compared. This will allow us to identify and expose the similarities and differences between the realities of the community and the values of its youth. This study will, most importantly, generate a better understanding of the attitude of Atikamekw youth towards education and employment. It will also allow us to discover the dynamic between education, employment and income in the community and aid in identifying Opitciwans’ socio-economic needs. Ce projet de recherche en sociologie porte sur les aspirations des jeunes atikamekws d’Opitciwan dans le Haut-Saint-Maurice et leur attitude face à l’école et l’emploi. Dans un premier ...