1. Definition and scholarly discussion
1.1. Lifestyle
1.1.1. Theory c. 1900
The term lifestyle appeared in the early 20th century and became broadly influential in the social and cultural sciences in the 1970s: understood as a phenomenon of consumer society, namely as any distinctive and therefore recognizable mode of living [33] that finds expression in consumption. Works by Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Thorstein Veblens introduced the concept, …