All You Need to Know About Life Style And Behavioral Entanglement



Life style is closely related to patterns of behavior. Ansbacher argues that this might be the case because the term is so easily convertible to the term style of living which could imply that the response to stimuli and the usage of objects - and therefore behavior - will be in accordance with the life style. Linking this behavioral aspect to the above mentioned unifying aspect would imply that the response styles of people should be fairly similar within a certain life style. Equalizing life style and style of living could also imply that a pattern of behavior is life style instead of being the result of it.

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The important question is then just how tight the relationship between life style and behavior really is. Is life style behavior or is it merely reflected in behavior?

According to Adler life style is not the same as behavior. Life style guides behavior which consists of thoughts, emotions and actions. Still, observing behavior seems to be the only way of drawing a picture of the life style of the individual, since the life style is hard to detect in any other way. Recall that life style comprises of the fountain principle that directs all the actions of the individual in pursuit of the life goal of the individual. The individual is mostly lack the knowledge of this fountain principle and the goal pursued, which makes the principle and goal hard to detect and describe. So, since life style is not studied directly, it can only be known by inference. In this process it is crucial to remember that according to Adler, behavior consists not only of overt behavior, such as actions, but also of feelings and thoughts by which means the individual attaches subjective meaning to his actions.

"In considering the structure of a personality, the chief difficulty is that its unity, its particular style of life and goal, is not built upon objective reality, but upon the subjective view.

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Therefore in order to disclose life style it is necessary to try to understand the behavior of the individual from the subjective viewpoint of the individual.

The behavioral implication of Weber's fairly vague definition of life style is obvious but it is hard to say whether Weber would go as far as to say that life style is behavior. Probably he would include other component than actions in his explanation of life style, because to him not only what you do but also what you are is important. This holds true, of course, only for acquired informal positions like being a mother, since inherited positions or expressions of monopolistic authority are distinct from the life style concept. As far as behavior is concerned, though, Weber definitely sees the behavioral pattern within certain groups as a part of life style. 


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Therefore it is worth noticing that Weber divides behavior into action and reactive behavior. Action is behavior to which the acting individual attaches a subjective meaning, whereas reactive behavior is devoid of meaning as it is not related to an intended purpose.


Similar to the behavioral implication of the life style concept of Adler, Weber suggests that understanding the behavior of the individual from the subjective viewpoint of the individual is needed in order to disclose life style.

The behavioral implication of the life style concept of Lazer is straightforward. According to him behavior within a certain life style group will be distinct from that of other life style segments on an aggregate level. In other words belonging to a certain life style group also means having a certain pattern of behavior which in important respects resembles that of the other members of the life style group.

All in all, Adler says that life style produces consistent behavior within the individual. Weber says that behavior determines what life style group you can acquire membership of. Finally, Lazer says that belonging to a certain life style group influences behavior.

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