Case Study: Ligua's Social Beliefs In Society

Case Study 1 – Ligua

Here’s my interpretation of Ligua’s current situation, She is the head of her households, a student who needs to work hard to pay for her tuition and feed her kids. She lives in an environment of small-minded people; her neighbors are her social barriers. Social barrier refers to those factors that are external to her and impede her focus on improving her life or become successful. Her neighbors are caught up in their own thinking that they cannot see the value of exploring other ways of life. Clearly, the community where she lives has adapted a prejudice lifestyle, the people she associates with are afraid of change. The culture she’s at evolves with Ethnocentrism - It means not realizing the challenge when it influences

She enjoys city life and diversity, her Scottish background made her busy engaging in social activities. However, her society discriminate her personal expression of having tattoos and piercing (this reminds me of a friend who lives in Haight Street in San Francisco, we came from the same city in the Philippines). She and Mary shared the same values and character. I thought it was weird for a Filipino chick to live in Haight Street and was able to blend in with the same kind of people where she lived. This is not the culture we had way back home. Tattoos were considered low class. My parents raised me differently how to interpret tattoos. Back home during the eighties tattoos signifies nothing but negativity. It has a bad connotation to us. Personally, I admit I was judgmental about my friend’s living in the Haight Asbury. It pained me whenever I seen tattoos in her body. Now, learning from Mary’s case explains the significant of tattoos, has a deeper meaning that affects a person’s life. My friend proved me wrong, she met her husband who had the same interest as her. Today, they live in L.A. she works in Hollywood as a crew director managing make up artist. I think Mary’s skills would help her find a decent job based on my friend’s story. If I’m Mary’s friend I will let her explore the world and find her passion. Her social skills will help her

Michael is a college graduate with a decent job. However, his day-to-day living encounters with racial profiling in his community where he lived have been his ordeal. As an African-American decent, it is typical to get stereotype. Michael’s color defines him as distrustful person, it is a shame that this is how people perceived a black person. He is being judge accordingly being a black man in his community. His neighbors portray him as someone who is not to be trusted and his color indicates prone to violence. At the workplace, Michael is reluctant to share his personal encounters of racial profiling, he felt inferior about himself especially sharing his personal experience with white coworkers. Michael is experiencing Stereotype Vulnerability it made him feels vulnerable and suffer low self-esteem. Furthermore, institutional racism has been the norms, customs and practices of social institutions towards black