Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture. Individual identity A li...
Individual identity
Lifestyles and social position
Earlier studies on lifestyles focus on the analysis of social structure and of the individuals' relative positions inside it. Thorstein Veblen, with his 'emulation' concept, opens this perspective by asserting that people adopt specific 'schemes of life', and in particular specific patterns of 'conspicuous consumption', depending on a desire for distinction from social strata they identify as inferior and a desire for emulation of the ones identified as superior.
Lifestyles as styles of action
Health
Class
Lifestyle research can contribute to the question of the relevance of the class concept.
Media culture
The term lifestyle was introduced in the 1950s as a derivative of that of style in art:
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