Does Affirmative Action promote social integration in the work place in the United States or is it irresponsibly denying the success of cultural integration and acceptance of minorities in the "land of equal opportunities"? This is a question that needs to be addressed by social scientists today and there is a substantial need for structured surveys to investigate this specific matter. Kenneth Clark's early work seems to have mislead an entire nation into believing that separation is equal (3, Mack, 41). It is the convergance of these extremes that needs to studied and hopefully arrived at. An area where there is no racial, gender, or age discrimination, but there is assistance and opportunity to and for the persons who are at a disadvantage in our society, for whatever reasons.

To get there, one must take into consideration three aspects of the problem:

1. Legal rulings

2. Government's influence

3. Statistical history of minorities in the labor force