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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

mobile phones, Moroccan social patterns, social norms, internet

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Political Science

Abstract

On the surface, Moroccan society appears fairly traditional. Women stay in the house. Men stay on the streets. However, traditional barriers are being circumvented by new technology; mobile phones allow men and women to have continual, unsupervised contact and thus interrupt social norms. Widespread mobile phone and internet use provides access to members of the opposite sex in ways never before possible. A fifteen year old girl can be sitting in her living room watching television with her parents while receiving texts from her (most likely unwelcome) boyfriend and no one is the wiser. This frequent contact is having a significant impact on social patterns in Morocco. My study involved interviewing fifty women who attended the University of Fez on their relationships with the opposite sex, mobile phone use, and internet use and how effects their relationships with others.

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