An article, published by Cecilia Ridgway, Why Status Matters for Inequality, she argues that there are preexisting conditions that people are born into that perpetuate inequality. Ridgeway essentially states that class and status largely determine who you form bonds with, ie parties. Weber states that socioeconomic status has much to do with the resources available to you.
Ridgeway also believes this to be true, yet she also introduces race as an antecedent to available resources because race is usually linked with class and status.
To see if this were true I conducted a survey with four pictures of a family. A casually dressed white family, a casually dressed black family a biracial black and white family with the male, or representing father being white, the other picture with the male or representing father as black. I switched the race of the male figure because males are socially constructed as the breadwinners in the family and I wanted to see if this was a factor when it came to choosing class. I surveyed 10 people asking them to write down what class they believed the family was from. The black family was rated the highest as being lower to middle class. The white family was always rated as middle- upper class. When the male was black in the biracial family they were middle class and when the male was white in the family they were considered high class. When asked what family was believed to have academic credentials beyond a community college level. The white family and the family with the white father were always chosen.
This survey revealed that race is largely impacted by social class and class is assumed by race as Ridgeway suggested. I can also conclude that as Weber mentioned class is not directly related to status, but we can conclude that somehow all of these factors intersect and make up the categories we belong to in the social world.