摘要：The author’s research concept is described in the text. The research area is Poland and Sweden. The text contains detailed methodological threads (method, research, area, key terms and categories, research tool) and theoretical threads are briefly described. The study concerns the social world of young people and I want to research two main levels: 1. The subjective side of the creation of hope and hopelessness and, according to the old sociologi-cal connection between values, the “capacity” of the institution and the subjective (individual) answers. 2. The institutional conditions of the creation of a sense of hope/ hopelessness. Aim of the research: young Poles and young Swedes - students of last grades of secondary schools - against two categories (sense of hope and hope_x005f?lessness), in four areas (1. Area of family life - intimate space connecting people closest to each other, emotional relations, but also relations with the body, health, 2. area of social activity - micro-scale - human social network, involvement in social life, social and cultural capital. Finally, school and educational successes, the degree of appreciation in the peer group, but also satisfaction with social life, 3. the area of relations with the world - on a macro scale - relations with the world of politics, political views, sense of agency. Growing into national culture, carrying culture and identification with culture, 4. the area of transcendence - relations with eternity - attitude to religion, personal, individual axiological system). Scientific problem: relations between the sense of hope and hopelessness and external conditions and the way the subjects function in four areas of life. Recognition of the subjective side of the creation of the sense of hopelessness and institutional conditions of the creation of the sense of hopelessness.
