ABSTRACT
The earliest theoretical research tradition on lifestyles, starting from the 1890s, is that including models which from different points of view consider them as a direct expression of social stratification. Although this aspect of Weber's sociology is often ignored, it is particularly significant for the purposes because it shows the complex relationship between social classes, status groups and lifestyles. Simmel is one of the most extensive treatments in sociology of the concept of lifestyle. On the whole Bourdieu's lifestyles theory seems then still connotated with structuralist, deterministic elements because action plays a subordinate role, being limited to fulfilling objectified cultural schemes which have their deepest roots in the class structure. In Bourdieu, this sociology of 'practical logic' is part of his thinking about the relationship between field and habitus. social practices are produced by the meeting/combining of three interrelated elements: field/capital/habitus.
