Social Pathology of Mobile Phones: Mobile Phones and Social Deviations

In specialist resources of the sociology of deviations, the effect of technology in general and information and communication technologies in particular on the quality and quantity of social deviations are discussed. Every emerging technology has some effects on the nature of social behaviors. There is usually a sort of gap or delay between the advent of technology and social behavior adjustment. Social response or reflection to technology can have both functional dimensions and non-functional dimensions. In fact, a technology may have been engendered with other objectives in mind. However, during times, it will be assigned by other functions which necessarily may not be adjusted with the social norms of a society, but it may be assigned by some pathological nature. In other words, a technological innovation, however it may result in increasing the level of welfare and facilitating the social life and supplying or satisfying some needs, in the same proportion, it may pave the path for new opportunities facing individuals for deviations or at least facilitate this process. The present study was conducted using library research and the technique of document analysis.

Keywords:

social deviations , mobile phones , SMS , Bluetooth , sociology