Lifestyle - “Way of life”

Lifestyle is also known as “Way of life”. Lifestyle in the other term is known as sociology  in our life. It’s the typical way of life of an individual person, groups of people and culture. Lifestyle is a combination of determining two factors.

·         Tangible factors

·         Intangible factors

Tangible factors relate to the demographic factors and intangible factors concern the psychological aspects of an individual of personal values, preferences and outlooks. It keeps the relationship with the neighborhood due to the varying degrees of affluence of the factors. Growing focus on lifestyle has developed as a result of  the concept of Lifestyle management. It typically reflects an individual’s attitudes, values or world view of the life. Lifestyle means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. An individual’s health depends a lot on their lifestyle. The more time spent on hygiene, physical fitness, and diet regulation of their body. Depression may lead to or increase the frequency of poor habits not promoting physical health. Unhealthy activities such as smoking, stress and depression etc.,

There are two kinds of environment for a lifestyle.

·         Natural

·         Social

Natural environment involves the conditions in a person of the natural and healthy lifestyle. Social environment includes an individual living and working conditions, income level, educational background, community and religious beliefs. Technology has negative effects on the environment such as pollution. Technology has changed the fields of agriculture, manufacturing, welfare, transportation, information, medicine, communication and among others. Lifestyle may include views on politics, religion, health, intimacy and more. Because of technology such as computers and television, people have a much more sedentary lifestyle, which leads to health complications and issues. Psychological aspects of an individual such personal values, preferences, and outlooks. 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.