Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it’s exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather, all pervasive and virtually inescapable. Still, we can try.
Medieval surnames came directly from occupations because work was identity. Around the 11th century, everyone knew who John the Baker was versus John the Miller. Your work was literally your signature.
The word "vocation" comes from Latin vocatio —literally meaning "a call, summons." Originally, a divine calling.
Processes also serve as repositories of institutional memory. They carry lessons from countless past cases, often unknown to the person following the process. Problems once encountered, solutions once devised, all of that is encoded into a set of steps.