All in a day's work: Boundaries and micro role transitions

We focus on everyday role transitions involving home, wort and other placer . Transitions are boundary-crossing activities, where one exits and enters roles by surmounting role boundaries. Roles can be arrayed on a continuum s panning high segmentation to high integration. Segmentation decreases role blurring but increases the magnitude of change, rendering boundary crossing more difficult: crossing often is facilitated by rites of passage. Integra tion decreases the magnitude of change but increases blurring, rendering bo undary creation and maintenance more difficult: this challenge often is sur mounted by boundary work.