"politicised" - 1 õppematerjal

Backpaking lifestyle

lifestyle was imbued in this period with a ‘controlled hedonism’ (ibid) focused on styling life 3 around playful leisure consumption rather than work, it comes as no surprise that the cognate field of leisure has sustained interest in the concept of lifestyle (see Stebbins, 1997; Veal, 2001; Wheaton, 2004). Past attempts at tightly defining lifestyle, however, often divorce the concept from its politicised history and instead concentrate solely on patterns of tangible behaviour (Stebbins, 1997). For instance, Sobel (1981, p. 3) defines lifestyle as ‘any distinctive, and therefore recognisable, mode of living’. In contrast, Stebbins (1997, p. 350) observes that in addition to an emphasis on shared patterns of behaviour, lifestyles encompass sets of related ‘values, attitudes and orientations’ that become ‘the basis for a separate, common social identity’.