Tuesday, May 29, 2007

What is Life Style

In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person (or a group) lives. This includes patterns of social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or worldview.

The following is a partial list of lifestyles that can be found in the 21st century. t is worth noting that these are not strict and well-definied categories; there may be considerable overlap between many of them, and an individual may identify as belonging to, or enjoying the activities associated with, more than one group. In addition, many of these categories themselves contain subclasses and subcultures.

Types of Life Styles:

1 General
2 Income or occupation based lifestyles
3 Consumption-based lifestyles
4 Lifestyles based on social and political issues
5 Lifestyle classifications used in marketing
6 Military lifestyles
7 Sexual lifestyles
8 Lifestyles based on spiritual or religious preferences
9 Musical subculture lifestyles
10 Lifestyles based on recreation


Descriptions General Lifestyles:

* Activism
* Asceticism
* Modern Primitivism
* Back to the land
* Bibliophilia
* Bohemianism
* Clothes free
* Communal living
* Groupie lifestyle
* Hippie
* Nomadism
* Quirkyalone
* Rural lifestyle
* Simple living
* Traditional lifestyle

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