Orientation Worlds

Orientation worlds connect specific routine patterns. In one’s working life, for instance, there are routines about when and how to work, take a break, and have meetings and discussions, whereas in social life, there are routines regarding conversations, invitations, having dinner, and so on. These can each include entirely different orientation processes, which are, however, perceived as coherent orientation areas.

We usually stay only in one orientation world at a time and forget our other orientation worlds during this time. This relieves our orientation altogether. Orientation worlds are separated by thresholds of attention to such an extent that if one world is noticed in the other one (e.g. your children call at the office), this is experienced as an irritation, as a pleasant or an unpleasant surprise. However, we usually routinely transition between the orientation worlds without the need for a central instance governing these processes.

Generally there are individual, interindividual or communal, societal, and global orientation worlds (chap. 8.4 and 8.5). They all have their own moral values, norms, and sanctions (chap. 14.5 [4]).

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Reinhard Mueller