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Given resources is related to the choices made by society

According to Matthew Arnold, in “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” said that to appreciate certain culture, that person has to be already culture:  "The highly instructed few, and not the scantily instructed many, will ever be the organ to the human race of knowledge and truth. Knowledge and truth in the full sense of the words, are not attainable by the great mass of the human race at all." 'Just as education, income, and occupation are indicators of whether people belong in the upper or lower reaches of a class system, their particular patterns of selections from the available culture can be used to characterize their lifestyles in similar hierarchical terms, because such patterns are strongly affected by the major stratification variables' (Berger, 1977).  Herbert Gans, an German-born American sociologist, stated that people select the material from cultures that is available to them based on their given resources, such as income and education, ...