This article draws on ethnographic material from a study among young Danish adults who have complex psychosocial problems and are not engaged in education or employment. Engaging the concepts of recognition (Honneth 2003, 2006) and care (Tronto 1994), we examine the young adults’ experiences of attitudinal, practical and relational aspects of encounters with professionals and services in the social and health care systems. We track how the young adults are socially visible or invisible as individuals depending on whether professionals show a genuine interest in the young adults’ specific stories and help meeting their needs over time. Social visibility is a prerequisite of recognition (Honneth 2003). We argue that at stake in the young adults’ encounters with professionals and services is the recognition of them as equal members of society, who deserve help with overcoming their problems and have something to contribute with. We examine the consequences of lack of recognition, and we conclude that paradoxically the efforts made by the system to help the young adults in some cases contribute to their experience of marginalization.

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被倾听和被记住：丹麦社会和卫生保健系统中年轻人的认可经历

本文借鉴了一项针对具有复杂心理社会问题且未从事教育或就业的年轻丹麦成年人的研究的民族志材料。运用认可（Honneth 2003、2006）和关怀（Tronto 1994）的概念，我们研究了年轻人在与社会和医疗保健系统中的专业人员和服务接触时的态度、实践和关系方面的经验。我们根据专业人士是否对年轻人的具体故事表现出真正的兴趣并随着时间的推移帮助满足他们的需求，跟踪年轻人作为个人在社会上的可见性或不可见性。社会知名度是获得认可的先决条件（Honneth 2003）。我们认为，年轻人与专业人士和服务接触的关键在于承认他们是社会的平等成员，他们应该得到帮助来克服他们的问题并有所贡献。我们研究了缺乏认可的后果，我们得出结论，自相矛盾的是，在某些情况下，系统为帮助年轻人所做的努力导致了他们被边缘化的经历。