Roles, Rhythms and Routines: Towards a New Script of Daily Life in the Netherlands?

Abstract

Roles, rhythms and routines play an important part in daily life. Without some degree of fixed roles, rhythm and routinization, people would constantly be baffled by the numerous decisions they face. Roles, rhythms and routines make life predictable and allow us to concentrate on important matters. The fact that only certain events stand out as extraordinary underlines how unremarkably most daily pursuits go by. Familiar notions such as the evening and the weekend derive their meaning from the fact that those episodes possess a certain colour.