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A lifestyle is the way a person lives. A
lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both
others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations,
consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviors and practices within
lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and
reasoned actions.
A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes,
values or worldview. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of
self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. Not
all aspects of a lifestyle are entirely voluntaristic. Surrounding social and
technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the
individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self |
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The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings
that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society. For
example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that
consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller carbon
footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging
in these activities.
Some commentators argue that, in modernity, the cornerstone
of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility
to create and further individualize the self with different products or services
that signal different ways of life.We are covering the following elements in
this section.
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