Амьдралын хэв маягийн талаарх ойлголт ба судалгааны хамрах хүрээ

Concept of lifestyle and scope its research

Abstract

A considerable volume of literature did indeed appear during the 1970s, some proposing lifestyle as a theoretical concept and some exploring the idea empirically. Most of this work, however, appeared in fields other than leisure studies, including such diverse areas as: studies of migrant communities; urban studies; market research; futurology; community politics; tourism; and social theory in general.

There was, however, resistance to the use of the lifestyle concept: a 1989 paper published in Leisure Studies, suggesting that a Weberian approach to lifestyle could provide a framework for the development of leisure studies was firmly rejected by neo-Marxist and feminist scholars and has continued to be dismissed by critical sociologists  and feminists. Despite this criticism, support for the lifestyle concept continued to grow during the 1990s. Mommaas (1999) related the concept to the work of Veblen, Weber and Simmel; Critcher appeared to modify his earlier position in suggesting that lifestyle was one of a number of “middle range” concepts which should be explored in leisure studies; a number of contributions to the discussion were made by Paré; Rojek suggested that the concept had survived some of its structural feminist critiques; and a substantial review of the concept was published in the journal Leisure Studies.