Mode of life

The selection by or allocation to individuals or families of their material requisities on the one hand, such as diet and nutrition, housing quality, and quality of social infrastructures available such as roads, public transportation, public sanitation, and hospitals, etc. The mode of material life is differentiated most of all by income and occupation. Beyond the material and economic life one can speak of differentiated moral, aesthetic, educational-cultural and spiritual life. In a phrase, a mode of life is characterized by what an individual consumes and also that by which he himself is 'consumed'.