Making Lives and Remaking Lives
Making lives refers to the means of creating a society, namely, through inherited practices, lifestyles, and behaviors. Individual characteristics on way of life signify making lives on a personal level (De la Sablonnière, 2017). Remaking lives signifies alterations made at both personal and societal levels and aims to improve behavioral factors that affect people as well as characteristics of their well-being (The Open University, 2014c).
Examples of Making Lives and Remaking Lives
The first example is people paying taxes for services such as street cleaning. In the City Road case, a shopper becomes upset that streets remain dirty despite taxpayers' sacrifice to have them cleaned (The Open University, 2014a). Tax practice is handed down from previous generations.
The second example is how manner consumptions of goods and services have changed over time (Open University Course team, 2014). Shoppers adopt new habits, and types of products consumed also differ.
The first example of remaking occurs on City Road in the nature shoppers demand goods and services that vary from previous trends. Mark Hocking narrates how car buyers changed from yard sales to specialized parts (De Lemus and Stroebe, 2015). These habits and behaviors have tried to recreate the society of City Road. The societal behavior in managing waste has also changed from contemporary methods to more sophisticated ones as industrialization increases (The Open University, 2014b). Each of these alterations happens contrary to the traditions; thus, they qualify as remaking.
Conclusion
Making lives is about the current status, remaking is an attempt to improve based on observed adversities. Therefore, traditions make up inherited lives as individual lifestyles account for personal attributes. Afterwards, reducing wastes and inequalities amount to remaking lives.
References
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