Redfield's " Style of Life" has been compared with Lionel Thrilling's Manners.
Redfield suggested that "style of life" captured "what is most fundamental and enduring about the ways of a group persisting in history." Civilization was an outgrowth or "transformation" of the "primitive world." Redfield was intrigued by the possibility, against the expectations of the cultural evolutionist, that "people with very different specific contents of culture may have very similar views of the good life."