The Menassat Center for Research and Social Studies organizes a seminary for the presentation of the qualitative research “Individual liberties: What Moroccans say”.

In a press release, The Mohammedia Novotel will welcome on the 21st Saturday 2023 starting at 16h Menassat for the presentations of the results of the qualitative research, done by the scientific team of the center, and which was spread over sixteen months.

 The research is the prolongation of a quantitative research that included 1311 Moroccans, while the interviews had covered the 80 interviewees. Note that the study on Individual Freedoms: Representations and Perceptions is field research, which questioned Moroccans on freedom of worship, sexuality and freedom of the body. The research also included the attitudes of the interviewees in relation to certain articles of law linked to individual freedoms.

In a successive manner, the Menassat Center took on two researches on the field, to ask Moroccans about the sense given to individual freedoms. The emphasis was put on the freedom of worship, consensual sexual relations, and the relation of the individual with the body, questions that we could not analyze in one direction, in other words from the angle of numbers. The latter are certainly important, but stay relative, which requires more apprehension.

According to the same press release, this report is the crowning achievement of the collective work of the “Menassat for research and social studies” team, the participants in the “JIL Program”. The research was led by the director and professor Aziz Mechouat, the professor sociologist Mohcine Mohammed Rahouti, and the professor sociologist Abderrahmane Zekriti. all Menassat researchers, all disciplines combined, as well as young doctoral students who have taken part in the various training cycles of the “JIL” program. The latter did indeed take part in the collection of data in the field, and were able to develop several ideas in the said report.

As a reminder, the Menassat center for Research and Social studies is a scientific space, dedicated to the academician as well as the institutional actor or the civil society actor, in order to discuss and cross points of view around various debates and controversies on the agenda. Note that the main mission of Menassat is research on the field, and the expertise, which it puts at the service of decision-makers, academics, representatives of civil society, and all actors interested in the social issue. It is in this sense that the Menassat triad is presented as follows: the provision of its Expertise, the Training of young budding sociologists, and the Development of research of scientific rigor.