ABSTRACT
A lifestyle, understood as a social form, with unitary sense and relational meaning, which is a distinctive model shared within a collectivity, without having either a pre-existent cognitive-axiological system or a pre-determined socio-structural condition as generative elements, even though it may be influenced by them.. Just like a group, an association, an organization and so on, a lifestyle too then takes form as a model type of reciprocal action, which is to say forms characterizing groups of people united to live side by side with others, either one for the others or one with the others. In this interpretative model the distinction between sense and meaning is precisely observed. The basic element distinguishing the concept from the more general one of social action is, in this case, the implication of habitualness or of learned, recurrent patterns of behavior that are enacted with minimal reliance on conscious resources or effort.
