Changing Lifestyles
Lifestyle is a mix constituting our ways for communication and behavioral interests in conjunction with cultural parameters of Norms, Mores and Taboos along with societal economic conditions. It can also be considered as an approach for living and in this context is tool for conveying thoughts, opinions and attitudes. The term Lifestyle was first conveyed by the Austrian Psychologist Alfred Alder in 1929 in his book named “The Case of Miss R in 1929”. The book advocated for a person’s early childhood life as affecting the lifestyle. Hence lifestyle may also be considered as a blend of concrete and abstract factors, wherein, demographics fall in the category of concrete and psychographics being constituted of Activities, Interests and Opinions, comes under the preview of Abstract factors. As per the same, Urbanizations, may be taken as a concrete factor and living a modern luxury life can be treated as an abstract factor. Types of Lifestyles In order to discuss t...