Conceptualizing Cultural lifestyle

Considerable research has been done on the subject of lifestyle in recent years, but they experience poor conceptualization, confusing concept of lifestyle with close concepts and less attention to the consistency of levels of analysis. This article aims refining the conceptual space of lifestyle and providing a precise conceptualization of cultural lifestyle. For this purpose, using documentary method and conceptual analysis techniques, the conceptual space and the relationship between culture, subculture, consumption and lifestyle are examined and then analyzing common aspects of definitions, a clearer definition of lifestyle and cultural lifestyle has been provided. The findings suggest that lifestyle means patterns of daily activities deal with cultural, social and material consumption and production and is correlated and overlaps partially or totally with concepts such as culture, subculture and consumption. Lifestyle is divided in three categories of cultural, social and economic segregation. While the social lifestyle is concerned with social production and consumption, the economic lifestyle is including material consumption and production and cultural lifestyle means pattern of everyday actions aimed at production and consumption of symbolic content.