Lifestyle and Youth: Identifying Lifestyle among Women in Mahabad, Iran

Abstract

Lifestyle reflects individuals’ values, norms, expectations, and desires. Discussion on today’s lifestyle is mostly about two topics: leisure and youth. The theories of Bourdieu, Simmel, Baudrillard, Giddens, and others have theoretical basis in this research. This study aimed to identify lifestyle among women in Mahabad and analyzed the relationship between lifestyle and the independent variables including social, economic, political, cultural capital, as well as variables, relative deprivation, anomie, religiosity. The method of the study was measurement, extensive, and cross sectional and the sampling size were 378 people and questionnaire included 148 questions and has been implemented in Likert spectrum. The results showed that there was not a significant relationship between the two variables of lifestyle and gender. There was also a significant relationship between the types of capital in the research and lifestyle, but no relationship with economical capital. The economic and cultural capital and anomie had no significant impact on analyzing the lifestyle so they were excluded and the analysis was done with other variables (political capital, social capital and religiosity).