THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
OF Corruption: The Liberian Case
Study.
Presented to:
Strayer University
Department of Sociology
Presented by:
Amos M. D. Sireaf, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
February 26, 2010
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INTRODUCTION
This presentation seeks to articulate that the history of Correction is
also the history of a Scientific- cultural of poverty, papered to be
imbedded in the DNA of the Liberian socio- cultural, and
transplanted historic social and political structures. Corruption in
Liberia is an idea from mankind, specially, It is distinctly a Western
emulated and learned behavioral philosophy.
No society is composed of genetically “pure” people.
Society tends to rank themselves into hierarchies based on race with one race
assumed to be better than another. We are in fact one race - human.
In essence, Social Construction of race is
a cultural of fallacy based on hypothetical or
conditional propositions.
INTRODUCTION
Race & Ethnicity are Social Constructs
depending on the nations and the minds set of
its occupants.
 Race becomes a social construct when it
draws an artificial boundaries among
people, nations, and that artificially divides
people into distinct groups based on
characteristics.
THEORIES
A. That your present situations were meant to be;
therefore, there has to be a policy put in place
to sustain your situation.
B. That you appear to be an expendable subject or
useful and workable instrumental, or you were
not meant to exist, or you were meant to exist
on certain frame of reference… or a product of
natural selection (Charles Darwin)
JUSTIFICATIONS
1. Since it turns that all humans are the descended from
a small number of African ancestors in our recent
evolutionary past, believing in profound differences
between the human races is as ridiculous as believing
in a flat earth.

Social Construction of Race is a fallacy
JUSTIFICATIONS
2.
We were not or we are not born with racist attitudes,
values, culture, or beliefs. It is an institutional and
interdisciplinary frame of instruction or cultural
conditioning dynamic. This Cultural Conditioning can
in time becomes a Social Construction of Reality
based on the theory of the Self-fulfilling Prophecy.
JUSTIFICATIONS
 Even though we are born and we were born into
social, ethnic, cultural, and religious contexts, we
have not made enough efforts nor acquired enough
information about knowing ourselves and or knowing
one another. (As an African from Liberia)…
JUSTIFICATIONS
 It is through the process of socialization, cultural
consciousness, and social interaction that we acquire
sets of attitudes, values, and beliefs that may
contribute to the way we see one another from an
ethno-cultural and racist perspective.
DISCUSSION
 What does it mean to say that race is “socially
constructed or it is a Social Construction of Reality?
 What do we mean when we say that anything is
socially constructed?
CONCLUSION
 Ethnicity becomes a social construct when it divides
people into smaller social groups based on a shared
sense of group membership, values, behavioral
patterns, language, political and economic interests,
history, and geography.
 An understanding of the social construction of “race”
in the US is essential for an understanding of the
impact of events and change.
 Thanks: Q&A
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