ECOLOGICAL LIFESTYLE, THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF THE CONCEPT

• Main Author: Olesya Nikolaevna Tarasova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science and Innovation Center Publishing House 2015-12-01
• Series: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem
• Subjects: ecological way of life, conceptuality, contextual conformity, processuality, systematicity; environmental practices, ecological consumption, segmentation models of ecological way of life
• Online Access: http://journal-s.org/index.php/sisp/article/view/7906
• ISSN: 2218-7405

<span>Based on the analysis of approaches to the empirical study of the environmental aspects of lifestyle are presented the basic principles that distinguish ecological way of life off the set of environmental practices that need to be taken into account in empirical measurement, namely: systematicity, conceptuality, contextual conformity and processuality. The article provides a theoretical basis and operational definition as an ecological way of life in general and the principles that distinguish it from other concepts of environmental sociology.</span>