TY  - BOOK
AU  - Airi-Alina Allaste
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653029345
TI  - «Back in the West»
T2  - Changing Lifestyles in Transforming Societies
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02934-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046968
N2  - This book examines the changing lifestyles in transforming societies, focusing on the interplay of lifestyle choices, social status and the society as a whole. When individuals choose their careers, mates or networks to belong to and to identify with, they are influenced by rapid technological developments, economic uncertainty and other ongoing changes in society. On the other hand, by their choices they also construct new social realities. The book addresses lifestyles and social change in connection with a wide range of issues: belonging to different movements and networks; changes in gender order, work and partner choices; changes in home cultures and ways of residing; emerging translocal belonging and cross cultural relationships; consumption choices and construction of identities. The first part of the book gives the wider context within a longer perspective and the second part is focused on specific cases of lifestyle choices.
KW  - Lifestyles, Identity, Post-socialist society, Estonia, social status, home cultures, gender
LA  - English
ER  -