Sociolinguistics chiefly is the study of language practice variation, insofar this can be related to, or defined by, social variables such as class. As this variable’s efficiency is questioned, a novel way of addressing value systems as social symbol is lifestyle or society members’s (unconsciously) shared cultural knowledge of values and norms conventionally emerging together. Bourdieu is pioneering for the lifestyles theory and especially for its operationalization. What instantly perceptible criteria can be employed to delimit diverse lifestyles depends on which subject identity feature a specific project wants to examine and sociolinguistics is oft mainly interested in subjects’ working lives.The lifestyle concept is also discussed with regard to linguistic practices.