Lifestyle and conduct: differences and similarities

Lifestyle is a new term frequently used in the fields of sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. The scope of application of this term today has gone far enough to replace many old terms and conceptions. As a technical term, lifestyle has a close tie with a set of concepts such as culture, society, mind, behavior, meaning, personality, environment, inheritance, need, taste, fashion, status, and tradition. The concept of lifestyle, from one side, encompasses the most detailed event of man’s life, and goes rooted deeply covering man’s entity, from another side; it is thus both encompassing and deep. We may consider the Islamic lifestyle as a separate discipline of knowledge having some relations to man’s line of conduct. Those relations can be taken into consideration as difference or similarities. In what follows, the author has gone to infer and propose those differences through some library-ascription method.