Koncepcja komunikacyjnej stratyfikacji społeczeństwa w kontekście miasta – style życia jako kody komunikacji

This article primarily proposes a different, interdisciplinary view of the city as a specific space for the manifestation of various lifestyles. The authors posit that the concept of urban lifestyles (Oliveira et al. 2020) is simply too general for understanding cities from an architectural-urban and social perspective. Furthermore, the category of the “creative class” (Florida 2003) is not so much a description of a specific lifestyle as it is a manifestation of consumption-oriented market practices. Assuming that society should be understood primarily as a system of communicative connections (Luhmann 1995), the authors indicate a possible direction for the study of lifestyles: from the perspective of their application to urban space in a way that is oriented towards the final recipient in a specific social role. Thus, it is not the human being that is the focal point of lifestyle differentiation but communications and their social manifestations. The authors look at the city and its spaces in order to juxtapose them with the concept of the communicative stratification of society.