In the charged reflexive settings of high modernity, living on 'automatic pilot' becomes more and more difficult to do, and it becomes less and less possible to protect any lifestyle, no matter how firmly pre-established, from the generalised risk climate. Self and society in the late modern age. Self and society in the late modern age. Self and society in the late modern age. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms.
Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self.
Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. Self and society in the late modern age. Lifestyle options are thus often decisions to become immersed in those milieux, at the expense of the possible alternatives. A lifestyle sector concerns a time-space 'slice' of an individual's overall activities, within which a reasonably consistent and ordered set of practices is adopted and enacted. Lifestyle sectors are aspects of the regionalisation of activities.