ABSTRACT
In workplace societies, even though individuals obviously will exert greater influence, it is assumed that where coherent structured organizations exist, there too the entire social group must be participant. In traditional societies individuals and groups live and die within a relatively constant, structurally defined environment. The ritual use of structured domains will remain one of the most theoretically important, ethnographically difficult aspects of future research efforts in this area. Using the ideas about ritual structures combined with some simple observation and interview field methods, it is possible to program existing or latent spatial expression in work settings. The potential in workplaces, however, exists in the much greater and immediate need to expressively manipulate active, purposeful relationships often between a multiplicity of social groups. Ritual performance, the movement through such space, is essentially a manipulation of the emotional energy primarily for purposes of social legitimacy, whatever its guise.
