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Lifestyle Quotes
Lifestyle is the term that is given for a mode of living adopted by an individual, a group, a
nation or a commonwealth of nations. Lifestyles depend on—and in turn co-create—the
characteristics of a civilization or a culture within a given space and time. A lifestyle takes
shape within the specific interweaving of economic, political, cultural and religious
frameworks, patterns and discourses. Under the conditions of globalization, it is also greatly
influenced by demography and technology. In recent research, the notion of lifestyle is not
limited to the synchronic (i.e., space-centered) notion of “way of life,” but it also includes the
diachronic (i.e., time-centered) mechanisms of how a “good life” is conceived on the basis of
changing convictions, values and imaginations in a given context, and how it is projected as a
perspective into the future. That means that lifestyles embody life practices—and more
precisely individual and collective habits—of populations in a given life-world that comprise,
and are expression of, both the effects of the past and the anticipation of the future.
Interestingly, even if belonging to one and the same civilization or culture, lifestyles
are always stratified “in their inside”—that is, according to class, gender, education, age,
access to life options (e.g., professions), services and goods (e.g., housing). Socialization and
social inclusion or exclusion (often caused by the environment or milieu of origin) also play
important roles. Lifestyles are always dependent on life standards. For example, a person
living in Western civilization and thus embedded into a mainstream lifestyle characterized by
equality, individualism, open access to technology and professions may still be disadvantaged
by age or the lack of education, thus being forced to conduct a lifestyle not corresponding to
his or her aspirations. In many civilizations around the world, lifestyles are still dependent on
gender.
Insofar as lifestyles consist of the complex multidimensional interweaving of all these
dimensions and factors, they are often interpreted as the symbolic embodiment of culture in
the broad sense, that is, to the extent that culture is defined as “the inheritable of social
practice” (Johannes Heinrichs). The relationship between a culture and the lifestyles
inhabiting it is shaped both by its affirmation through “ordinary” lifestyles and the opposition
(or protest) of “alternative” or “non-aligned” lifestyles against its prevailing mainstream.
Correspondingly, a lifestyle has the double function of distinguishing and unifying
groups and individuals within a given society, as well as creating symbolic (cultural) centers
and peripheries. According to Pierre Bourdieu, lifestyles negotiate between the objective
structures and features of a society and the subjective practices possible in it. They
incorporate social structures by transforming them into symbolic capital, that is, into habits
publicly visible that thus influence the cultural self-consciousness of a society. In this sense,
lifestyles are not only the (passive) expression of given societal patterns and formations, but
can also be interpreted as (active) agents of symbolic power, because they influence the ideas
of what a good life can and should be in a society, thus ultimately also affecting its political
and institutional framework. As a consequence, different groups in a given society compete
for symbolic capital by the means and in the “space” of lifestyles. In this sense, lifestyles are
the complementary cultural dimension of the material struggles within a society, thus
acquiring a pre-political or contextual political role. Given that according to Ramón Saldívar
the “power of culture” as a unifying and dividing force is at the core of globalization, this prepolitical
role today is seen as increasingly important, because in the age of global
communication systems and of a media culture that revolves around the production,
distribution and exchange of images, lifestyles depict and influence the inner conflicts as well
as the integrative potentials of the arising global civilization.
Before adding in your quote introduce it with a signal
phrase and a reporting verb (See the following page for
some examples).
Ex: Robin Lakoff argues that….
Quotation
After you have introduced your quote with a signal phrase or reporting verb add in your
quote! Ex: Robin Lakoff argues that “[c]ultural bias was built into the language we were
allowed to speak about, and the ways were spoken of” (152).
Introducing Quotations1
To guarantee that your reader clearly follows your writing, you should introduce your
quotes with a signal phrase, reporting verb, or both (as shown in the quote sandwich)
rather than simply plopping the quote down. If you add in a quote without any sort of
introduction, your reader may not understand how the quote connects to your paragraph,
even if it makes sense to you (think of it as similar to a random thought in a conversation).
Below are examples of signal phrases and reporting verbs that you can use to introduce
your quotes:
Signal Phrases
• According to…
• In her article…
• In the opinion of (author’s name)…
• (Author’s name) suggests that…
• (Author’s name) argues that…
• (Author’s name) + (a reporting verb
from the right)
Reporting Verbs
Acknowledges Adds Admits
Agrees Argues Asserts
Believes Claims Comments
Compares Confirms Declares
Denies Disputes Emphasizes
Endorses Grants Illustrates
Implies Insists Notes
Observes Points out Reasons
Refutes Rejects Reports
Responds Suggests Thinks
Writes
For Example:
Dwight Bolinger notes that “in a society where women and farmers are regarded as
inferior, sex differences and occupational differences become class differences” (99).
Malcolm X writes, “I was so fascinated that I went on- I copied the dictionary’s next
page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I
also learned of people and places and events from history” (89).
Elizabeth Wong comments “The language was a source of embarrassment. More times
than not, I had tried to dissociate myself from the nagging, loud voice that followed me
wherever I wandered in the nearby American supermarket outside Chinatown” (291).
1 Adapted from Texts and Contexts
Punctuating Quotes
In addition to incorporating quotes with the quote sandwich, and introducing them
with signal phrases and reporting verbs, there are a few punctuation rules to keep
in mind.
The first time you reference an article (or other text) you need to give the name(s) of
the author(s), the title of the article, and the name of the magazine or book
(if you know it).
Introduce the Author
The first time you use a quote from an article, you need to use the author’s first and last
name. (The next time you use a quote from that author, only use the last name.)
How to Punctuate Titles
Put the names of articles, essays, poems, essays, and chapters in quotation marks:
“Talking Like a Lady”
“Dialect”
“Mother Tongue”
“Black Hair”
Underline or italicize the titles of books, movies, magazines, newspapers, periodicals, and
musical albums:
Our America Our America
San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
The Godfather The Godfather
The Quote Itself:
• Put quotation marks “ ” around the quote and use the author’s exact words
• After the quote, put the page number in parentheses, and the period after the
parentheses.
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