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Teenagers’ Interest In Property Ownership In Digital Age Windarsari, Wiwin Riski; Rostina
Maksimal Jurnal : Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Sosial, Ekonomi, Budaya, Teknologi, Dan Pendidikan Vol 2 No 4 (2025): April
Publisher : Abadi Institute

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59971/meta-journal.v2i4.328

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This qualitative study explores the nature and drivers of property ownership aspirations among teenagers (aged 15-19) in Makassar, Indonesia, within the context of pervasive digital immersion. Adopting a phenomenological approach, data was gathered through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 30 participants across diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. The findings illustrate that even with significant involvement in digital technologies, teenagers mainly perceive property as a form of tangible security and a legacy to pass down through generations, highlighting persistent cultural values related to family stability. Digital platforms open up access to property information and elevate aspirations through inspiring stories, but they also heighten anxieties with unrealistic depictions of wealth and obscure practical routes to ownership. Motivations centered on independence, stability, and social validation are tempered by perceived insurmountable financial barriers rising property prices, complex financing, and cultural aversion to debt. The study concludes that teenagers navigate a disconnect between digitally fueled dreams and tangible attainability, epitomized by the metaphor “groping in the dark while holding a bright phone”. This underscores an urgent need for context-sensitive interventions leveraging digital tools for financial literacy, demystifying acquisition processes, and fostering collaborative support systems among educators, policymakers, and communities to bridge aspiration and reality.
Café Lifestyle And Identity Among Young Coffee Consumers In Makassar Windarsari, Wiwin Riski
Maksimal Jurnal : Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Sosial, Ekonomi, Budaya, Teknologi, Dan Pendidikan Vol 2 No 4 (2025): April
Publisher : Abadi Institute

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59971/meta-journal.v2i4.337

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In contemporary Makassar, café culture has become a powerful site of youth identity construction, cultural negotiation, and social aspiration. This study explores how coffee consumption among young people aged 18–30 transcends lifestyle trends to become a medium for performing modernity, asserting cultural roots, and navigating socioeconomic and spatial hierarchies. This research investigates the meanings and experiences embedded in café rituals across diverse social and economic contexts using a phenomenological qualitative approach including semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and digital diaries. Findings reveal that cafés function as identity laboratories where youth strategically curate hybrid selves, blending global coffee aesthetics with local philosophies such as Siri’ Na Pacce and Pappaseng. The study highlights how class and income shape café participation, with phenomena like “menu anxiety” reinforcing symbolic exclusions. It also uncovers new dimensions, including emotional self-regulation through café rituals, gendered expectations of visibility, and the digital extension of café experiences via social media as forms of aspirational performance. Contrary to the universalist “third place” theory, cafés in Makassar operate as contested cultural arenas, simultaneously enabling self-expression and reinforcing structural boundaries. This research advances a decolonial framework for understanding youth consumption in the Global South by centering Eastern Indonesian epistemologies. It calls for inclusive urban strategies that recognize cafés not just as commercial spaces, but as everyday theaters of cultural resistance, belonging, and meaning-making.