Abstract
This investigation examines seasonal patterns in children's lifestyles in family inn in ski areas. An analysis of differences in lifestyles during the ski season and other times indicates the processes of those lifestyles that instill seasonal patterns. The lifestyles of children examined here are regarded in terms of locations where they perform six activities : sleeping, eating, studying, playing, watching television and helping homework, three areas of their lives are analized : the composition of rooms where these activities occur, their living area as determined by room arrangements, and universal communal forms. This investigation includes three sections : the first indicating results of room compositional analyses. Changes in the room composition are not results of random transformations, they represent as a set of contradictory changes in which the stability of the central living area is maintained as a subsystem whose functionallity varies with the seasons and absorbs the effects of these changes in order to cope with them.
