🔷 what is form of life?

 Form of life is a useful skill that can help us to remain unharmed when we interact with others.
 Form of life is practical knowledge about the correct language and appropriate conduct, fashion and style that we are encouraged to use when communicating with others in order to achieve a pleasant coexistence.
 Form of life: A modus operandi or a practical know-how of how to deal with particular situations in private or public life.
 To master a form of life means to have a procedural knowledge of its application.
 Form of life is a relevant tool that individuals need to interact consensually with others.
 Forms of life are not an expression of moral values but they rather methods that allow us to lead our lives without coming into conflict with others.
 Any kind of experience, in a person’s inner or outer world, marks some sort of interface with society.
 If two or more people concur in what they consider natural or taken for granted without having to give explanations then we can say that they share a form of life.
 During the process of communication one, two or more people would recognize the interlocutor’s form of life by the way in which the respective other acts.
 Makes a distinction between social know-how and form of life.
 Conventions are essential but they are only a result of their time.
 Any social encounter is characteristic for a time.
 Justifiable form of life: the deep laws of humanity.
 People communicate with each other by using a repertoire of social techniques that form part of their forms of life.
 Language is verbal conduct and as such part of form of life.
 Language games are dynamic in that they emerge and disappear in the course of time.
 All forms (of life) are languages.
 Forms of life are never just a private matter but commonalities in the way we act and understand things.
 Form of life: does not reflect any abstract principle and it is neither an ideology nor a philosophical perspective.
 Form of life is a sum of refined techniques that we use to deal with the occurrences of everyday life.
 Form of life is only a social technique and not an inner conviction.

🔶 What change form of life?

 Socio-economic development led to new forms of life.
 Emergence of new forms of life is clearly related to the process of urbanization.
 The term form of life is closely linked with social changes and the formation of new classes.
 Forms of life are a result of education and formation.
 The forms of sociality practiced in a society are influenced by the political culture of that country.
 Political institutions guarantee law and order and religious institutions provide moral standards for behavior.

🔰Individual and society

 There are established forms of life in society to which the individual has to adapt.
 Society provides a model on the organization of life.
 Interaction among individual and society.
 Individualization is a two-edged sword.
 Everyone should develop the form of life that he or she considers appropriate.
 It is this space or sense of distance that characterizes a cultivated character.
 It is impossible for individuals to create and modify culture in its entirety according to own preferences.
 Buddhist monk or the drug addict: Such misanthropic attitude could be called an enclosed form of life but is still a form of life.
 Any kind of experience, in a person’s inner or outer world, marks some sort of interface with society.
 The more sophisticated a person is the more he or she must keep a distance to others.
 Socializing with others holds the chance for an individual to develop one’s own personality and thereby achieve self fulfilment.
 Following the Structural-Functional Theory the state offers education and formation to its citizens and thus contributes to their socialization.