OT 5122 Random Vocabulary

Engagement or participation in a recognizable everyday life endeavor.

The personal and collective stories through which individuals, families, groups, communities, organizations, and populations construct meaning through reflection and participation in occupations.

Recurring sequences of time use, such as the regimen repeated upon waking each day.

The study of the experiences and factors pertaining to human occupation; also known as occupationology.

Things that people do to occupy life for intended purposes such as paid work, unpaid work, personal-care, care of others, leisure, recreation, or subsistence. Includes groups of activities and tasks of everyday life, named, organized, and given value and meaning by individuals and a culture. Categories used by researchers and governments to track human participation in the labor market and society.

A regular or customary pattern of activity.

A classification used to distinguish between ideas, objects, events, or things based on their defined properties.

Any systematic approach to describing or categorizing intentional human time use.

Recurring, largely automatic patterns of time use within the context of daily occupations.

A repetitive pattern of occupation or time use; a disposition to act in a certain way, without conscious attention.

A classification created through convention or popular discourse.

A characteristic of behavior that is done automatically and repeatedly without direct or conscious attention or awareness.

Those occupations done concurrently with others (for example, talking on the telephone while watching children). Other terms for this concept are secondary activities and nested occupations.

The customary routines of occupation that characterize a person’s daily use of time and energy.

Groups of culturally defined everyday tasks and activities with individual and cultural meaning, and with diverse purposes for looking after the self, enjoying life, expressing spirituality, being a member of various communities, or participating in building (or negatively disrupting) the social and economic production of a particular society.