lifeworld
- noun
- /ˈlaɪfˌwɜrd/
- Specialized
- In her book, she explores how technology impacts the lifeworld of urban teenagers today.
- lifeworld existentials
- lifeworld existentials (corporeality
- lifeworld existentials (corporeality, relationality
Examples
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Understanding the concept of lifeworld can help us appreciate the different experiences people have in society.
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Here again, we see how the four lifeworld existentials are interrelated.
Academic text (2015) -
The question then arises of how best to understand the relationship of virtual worlds to the other lifeworld contexts in which members find themselves.
Academic text (2010) -
As noted previously, accounts such as this encompass elements of all four lifeworlds.
Academic text (2015) -
Again, to return to Habermas's forms of expression, all this amounts to the progressive colonization of the lifeworld by the system.
Academic text (1993) -
Since educational institutions are a part of society, they mirror the pathology of the wider world's lifeworld/system relationship.
Academic text (1993) -
Peter Berger calls modernity's challenge to ethnicity "the pluralization of lifeworlds."
Academic text (1992) -
Castaneda's books spoke to an increasing disgruntlement with the traditional academic paradigms and their remoteness from individuals' lifeworlds.
Academic text (1992) -
As personal geographies are necessarily adjusting to and promoting modern and postmodern lifeworlds, they are increasingly assuming their meaning from the ties between a placeless self and surroundings.
Academic text (1995) -
The lifeworld of rural communities often revolves around family traditions and local customs.
Synonyms
A group of people connected by the same job or interest
The everyday world people live in outside books or theory
Everyday life and work outside study or theory
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lifeworld joins life and world and comes from the German Lebenswelt, which means 'life-world'. It was used by philosophers to talk about the ordinary world people live in, so lifeworld means the everyday world of personal experience.