Transformações e influências do celular nas relações sociais: um estudo de caso das percepções e práticas sociais sobre o uso do celular no quotidiano e nas relações entre casais, Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This work analyzes the perceptions and social practices that a group of salespeople from Janeth's market has around the use of the cell phone in her daily life. Where it was found, that this artifact structures their lifeworld insofar as it affects the subjective organization of these, that is, their relationship with themselves, as well as the relationship of them with their respective affectionate and loving partners, that is, between couples. The aim of the study is to go beyond the fact that the cell phone is an important means of communication and facilitator of social relations, because the same fact can produce various changes in people's lives. In this sense, we try to test the hypothesis according to which, the cell phone is a means that makes it possible perceptions and social practices of "invasion of privacy" and "social control" in relationships between couples. It is also intended to identify how individuals relate to their cell phones; Identify how the cell phone enables social control practices and attitudes among couples; Identify how the cell phone enables perceptions of mistrust to arise between the couples. Identify how the cell phone makes it possible for troublesome situations to occur between couples. It is also intended to identify how individuals relate to their cell phones; Identify how the cell phone enables social control practices and attitudes among couples; Identify how the cell phone enables perceptions of mistrust to arise between the couples. Identify how the cell phone makes it possible for troublesome situations to occur between couples. With regard to the theoretical framework for reading the reality under analysis, we used the Phenomenology, in Berger and Luckmann's Constructivist approaches to Reality in a crossing with Garfinkel's Ethnomethodology. As for the concepts to read the reality we use the concepts social perception, social practice, "invasion of privacy" and social control. To carry out the study, a sample of 18 sellers was selected. intentionally. Data were collected on the basis of semi-structured interviews in depth with a single respondent at a time and recorded in audio. these were fully transcribed and subject to content analysis. The study followed a qualitative approach. With the work concluded at a general level the cell phone occupies an important place in life of individuals, and that they always have it around and feel bad when the they forget at home, as if it were an extension of their lives. what justifies the use of the cell phone is the possibility of communication at a distance anywhere and at any time without having want to use the landline, to get in touch with family members and being dealers, with suppliers and customers. As traders, the cell phone influences for the smooth running of the activity. t was also found that at the level of couples informal practices of social control emerge. between couples. New rules of coexistence between individuals also emerge. Is that the cell phone makes relationships between couples unpredictable, when between them there is no immediate return of an attempt to communicate, causing manifestations of mistrust, uncertainty and insecurity in relationships.