Rytualizacja pracy i życia codziennego. Doświadczenia Jana Szczepańskiego a specyfika nowych form życia społecznego

The main goal of the study is an attempt to show that rites, regardless of what areas of social life they concern, always occur in an interactive and axionormative context. They are universal in nature, but their content and manner of manifestation in individual and group behavior are changing. Attempts were made to demonstrate this from the perspective of Jan Szczepański’s childhood and his youth experiences, related not only to work but also to selected aspects of everyday life. A broad, processual understanding of the rite (ritualisation process) was adopted as a set of individual and group behaviors based on common beliefs and values, both practical and expressive. Efforts were made to demonstrate the basic types and functions of rites, especially contained in the practices of organizational culture, so distant from the practices related to the work performed by Szczepański on the farm of his parents. The analysis made it possible to show how much the work and everyday life of the adolescent Szczepański was framed by sacred rites creating a coherent, predictable and transcendent image of the world and people.