Why might assimilation not be achieved in a capitalist society?

Ascribed and achieved status.?

• Looking at ascribed and achieved statuses, how would being born a white male in U.S. society affect one's achieved statuses versus being a white female? How would being born a Black male versus a Black female? What difference in achieved statuses might there be if the individuals were born into very wealthy families as opposed to middle or lower income families? What ascribed status plays more of a role in achievement - race or gender?

• Answer:

  well focuusing on the very top job:(of Prime Minister or President) it was the black man not the white woman who got the nomination/eventual election to Presidency in the USA ...although that doesn't hold true for the UK nor for Australia apoontments to the poiltical top job ..where gender got the nod before ethnicity In the field of sport its ethnicity over gender in terms of highest paid sports stars. In the field of law as long as the individual shows signs of suporting corporate interests, then neither gender nor race will exclude them from high office ie it is class not ethnicity nor gender that is the key force affecting achievement in this field in the USA http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/pers-m28.shtml in the field of industry and finance have a look at Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace [Three Volumes]: Issues and Challenges for Today's Organizations ... http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780275988029 for a summary of their findings ...again it is class that exceeds both gender and ethnicity in influencing achievement here The details of the differences between gender and ethnicity are a bit more complex so its bets to read through this work to get the details...