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| - | In sociology,a lifestyle is the way a person lives. This includes patterns of social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual's attitudes, values or [[worldview]]. | ||
| - | Having a specific "lifestyle" means engaging in a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and the self in different times and places. Therefore, a lifestyle can be used to forge a sense of [[self identity]] and to create cultural [[symbols]] for the way a person is. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. | + | '''''Otium''''', a [[Latin]] abstract term, has a variety of meanings, including [[leisure]] time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors. It sometimes, but not always, relates to a time in a person's [[retirement]] after previous service to the public or private sector, opposing "active public life". ''Otium'' can be a temporary time of leisure, that is sporadic. It can have intellectual, virtuous or immoral implications. It originally had the idea of withdrawing from one's daily business (''negotium'') or affairs to engage in activities that were considered to be artistically valuable or enlightening (''i.e.'' speaking, writing, philosophy). It had particular meaning to businessmen, diplomats, philosophers and poets. |
| - | The term "lifestyle" first appeared in [[1939]]. [[Alvin Toffler]] predicted an explosion of lifestyles ("[[History of subcultures in the 20th century|subcult]]s") as diversity increases in [[post-industrial society|Post-industrial societies]]. Pre-modern societies did not require a term approaching [[sub-culture]] or "lifestyle", as different ways of living were expressed as entirely different cultures, religions, ethnicities or by an oppressed minority racial group. As such the minority culture was always seen as alien or other. "Lifestyles", by comparison, are accepted or partially accepted differences within the majority culture or group. This tolerance of differentiation within a majority culture seems to be associated with modernity and capitalism. | ||
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| - | *[[Alternative lifestyle]] | + | |
| - | *[[Life stance]] | + | * [[Italian Renaissance garden]] |
| - | *[[Otium]] | + | * [[Sabbatical]] |
| - | *[[Personal life]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sustainable living]] | + | |
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Otium, a Latin abstract term, has a variety of meanings, including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors. It sometimes, but not always, relates to a time in a person's retirement after previous service to the public or private sector, opposing "active public life". Otium can be a temporary time of leisure, that is sporadic. It can have intellectual, virtuous or immoral implications. It originally had the idea of withdrawing from one's daily business (negotium) or affairs to engage in activities that were considered to be artistically valuable or enlightening (i.e. speaking, writing, philosophy). It had particular meaning to businessmen, diplomats, philosophers and poets.
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