ABSTRACT
If a lifestyle is understood as a social form, the most important thing is to define on what analytical level its components should be collocated. Considering the cognitive-axiological side, it is undeniable that representations and values substantially exercise their influence in every situation on individual action and on the sense-meaning attributed to that action. Even forms of individuals identification and involvement with a shared lifestyle may present differentiated degrees and modalities. In particular, analysis of the possible role of cognitive-axiological and socio-structural factors as generative elements of the lifestyle should be carried out while bearing in mind. On one hand the co-presence of a recurrent framework of components among the various individuals being considered in the research and, on the other, the temporal anteriority of that presence with respect to adoption of the practices and of their signification and also specific processes through which such factors might have generated these meaningful practices.
