The Concept of Lifestyle
The word lifestyle was first used by Alfred Adler in 1929. Max Weber used the term a few years earlier but his writings were not translated until Adler did. Adler uses the example of a pine tree in The Science of Living to explain the concept of a lifestyle. Different kinds of pine trees grow differently in different environments. They also have different life styles, which are basically different ways of moulding themselves. For this reason,...