Urban Dwelling, Everyday life, Rootedness and Arctic-Antarctic Issues. A comparative study of undergraduate students at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Iceland and Jyväskylä

Abstract

Departing from a theoretical framework where consideration of the urban dwelling in terms of rootedness as a social ‘total phenomenon’ is emphasized: multi-dimensional and interdependent, and of an everyday life recreated in the urban realm. Starting from the design of three non-probabilistic samples of students (with quotas of age, sex and SEL) from the universities of Buenos Aires, Iceland and Jyväskylä, levels of spatial, social and cultural rootedness are measured, in terms of urban belonging, active participation and involvement of the subject in the urban world and its everyday life thereof. Likewise perceptions of the subjects are studied concerning the North-South relation, the meaning of the Arctic and the Antarctica, and environmental problems thereof.