crimination. Thus this will lead to substandard schools in which teachers are told to split up a class and place each student in a designated group depending on their race and the teacher's assumptions of the student's learning ability from their social classifications. For cultural factors, biased IQ test would be interconnected to substandard schools. These tests measure a student's school achievement. And if there are substandard schools, the students who are placed into the higher groups, the will do better than those who are placed in a lower group. And thus these IQ tests would lead to the deficiency theory, which suggests that 'the poor are poor because they do not measure up to the more well to do in intellectual endowment.' Also the social factor of racial discrimination is interconnected to the cultural factor of minority race. Those who are the minority, the main culture will produce basic assumptions about minority's abilities to be successful or well to do. For political factors, meritocracy would be interconnected to minority race. Meritocracy basically is the social classification by ability. Thus the assumptions produced will the levels of ability. The power elite produces meritocracy. These are the people who believe that 'the fundamental assumption of capitalism is individual gain without regard for what the resulting behaviors may mean for other people', especially those in poverty. Also the poor are not significantly counted in the US Census, so the government is misinformed on the levels of poverty. ...
