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, and matches their own moral and aesthetic standards

For example, most of the college students chose fast fashion over high end fashion although high end fashion's clothes have better quality than fast fashion's clothes but due to their limited income, they can only go for fast-fashion's clothes as it's more affordable and has acceptable quality.


References

Berger, B,M. (1977) ‘Contemporary Sociology’. Available at: https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.herts.ac.uk/stable/2066324?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents [Accessed on 19th  November 2018]

Markus, G. (2013) ‘The Path Of Culture’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1179/1440991713Z.0000000003 [Accessed on 9th December 2018]

Storey, J. (2003) ‘Inventing Popular Culture : From Folklore to Globalization’. Available at: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/herts/detail.action?docID=284070. [Accessed on 19th November]

Su, J and Chang, A. (2018) ‘International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Vol. 46 Issue: 1, pp.90-107 : Factors affecting college students’ brand loyalty toward fast fashion: A
consumer-based brand equity approach’. Available at:  https://doi.org/10.1108/IJRDM-01-2016-0015 [Accessed on 18th December 2018]

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