ABSTRACT
The fragmentary homogeneousness of a common way of life produces the heterogeneousness of a personal lifestyle: the more individuals adopt the same way of life, the more different objects and services are available, the more the fan of combinations of use is spread open, the more lifestyles personalization and diversity possibilities can be observed. In elaborating a new sociology of lifestyles on the basis of these elements, it will therefore be a matter of evaluating whether or not to insert an explicit analysis dedicated to relations with the physical-natural environment where the practices which make the lifestyles up develop, as well as different cultural patterns present within it. On the whole, then, we would need three conditions in order to talk about genres of life: comparable life conditions among the individuals examined; aggregation only of elementary uses relative to routine practices and conducts; the use of ecological, status, axiological and teleological factors for interpretation.
