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individual identity...
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.
[2]The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society.
[3] 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.
[4]
Politics
The term lifestyle in politics can often be used in conveying the idea that society be accepting of a variety of different ways of life—from the perspective that differences among ways of living are superficial, rather than existential. Lifestyle is also sometimes used pejoratively, to mark out some ways of living as elective or voluntary as opposed to others that are considered mainstream, unremarkable, or normative.
Within
anarchism,
lifestylism is the view that an anarchist society can be formed by changing one's own personal activities rather than by engaging in class struggle.
Advertising and Marketing
In
business, "lifestyles" provide a means by which
advertisers and
marketers endeavor to
target and match consumer aspirations with
products, or to create aspirations relevant to new products. Therefore marketers take the patterns of belief and action characteristic of lifestyles and direct them toward expenditure and consumption. These patterns reflect the
demographic factors (the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic levels and so on) that define a group. As a construct that directs people to interact with their worlds as consumers, lifestyles are subject to change by the demands of marketing and technological innovation.
In the
magazine and
television industries, "lifestyle" is used to describe a category of publications or programs
Effect of outside source on lifestyle
Each person chooses a unique lifestyle to go about their daily lives with. A lifestyle defines who you are and how you choose to deal with many conflicts and issues that arise in your life. Although people like to think of a lifestyle as something of their creation, lifestyles are often influenced by many outside factors. Those outside factors often make many people have the same lifestyle, and therefore makes us inauthentic people.
[edit]Technology
Technology and diversity have greatly changed the lives of people in society. Technology has positive and negative effects on our daily lives. However, the positivity and negativity of technology depends on how much we use it and how much we are exposed to it. In other words, our lifestyle controls our use of technology, while technology influences our lifestyles. To begin, technology has changed the fields of agriculture, manufacturing, warfare, transportation, information, medicine, communication, among others. Technology has also made it easier for other factors to affect our lifestyles, such as the media. All in all, technology has made our lives much easier, therefore we no longer are required to live vigorous lifestyles that, in the past, contributed to the decline in our health.On the other hand, technology has complicated many lives and has many negative effects. Technology has the power to deliver media to us that can change our values and views on the world, which in return will change our lifestyles. Also, technology has negative effects on the environment such as pollution. Because of technology such as the computer and the television, Americans have a much more sedentary lifestyle, which leads to health complications and issues.
Media is one of the most dominant influences on our lives. Because of technology, media can influence people from childhood to adulthood. Children grow up while being bombarded with images of physical appearance, violence, and shows about the lifestyles of others. This continues on for the rest of a person's life. When most people reach adulthood, they are aware of what is going on in the world around them, and they make their decisions based on those occurrences . Teenagers get exposed to shows such as Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, and others that portray the lifestyles of individuals whom they eventually idolize. Media starts to negatively affect their lives because they start to want those kinds of lifestyles because of the way they are portrayed on television . Media has also influenced the way certain lifestyles have been looked at through out the years. For example, for years, people have been familiar with the idea of a stay at home mother, or a housewife. Because of shows such as the Real Housewives, the portrayal of this lifestyle has dramatically changed from caring and kind, to filled with drama and scandal . Media also has influenced our health. Because of the constant idolization of physical appeal and the objectification of women, people's morals have changed, and therefore they are living lives controlled with physicality .
[edit]Politics
Politics and politicians go hand in hand with technology and media. Because of the two aforementioned influences, we now have quicker access to the lives of politicians. Politicians not have a handle on our lifestyles by telling us to boycott, boycott, endorse, support, and adopt several products and lifestyles. Politicians can now also adopt certain lifestyles themselves that will make people want to follow them or support them. For example, for the past few years, the biggest influence on peoples’ lives has been the urge to “go green.” Politicians have used this as a way to gain supporters. Politicians have also caused us to mix up the meaning of a consumer and a citizen. We are told to purchase certain “green” items in order to show that we are citizens who care about our environment and country, but on the other hand we are just being turned into consumers. Politicians try to endorse lifestyles that will benefit the country economically, and therefore have a great influence on our lifestyles.
beyond that have a good lifestyle...
dont use drug or be a drug addicted...
once you fall in to that theres no turning back...
have a safe and healthy lifestyle... thanks for reading... respect !
thats all guy... love ya...
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