Studying by focusing the analysis on occupation offers a wide variety of aspects, as many as the existential and circumstantial dimensions it brings together.
Occupational stories or narratives allow us to address specific topics linked to significant activities. of people, the reflection to elucidate the key elements that identify a given cultural matrix. This paper investigates axiological factors that characterize the occupational choices of communities in Latin America.
Over seven versions of the Occupational Histories and Occupational Profiles course, we have reviewed occupational narratives available in various written and audiovisual media. In all of them, the presence of key axiological (value) elements in people's occupational development is evident.
The method of argumentative analysis of occupational stories and of this conceptual framework that supports it, is developed following the Toulmin Model (1958) (Trujillo, 2007. Pinochet, 2015), where the thesis of the existence of a relationship between occupational history and cultural identity, will be supported by relevant arguments from representative theorists, in relation to the following concepts: moral conscience, social conscience, cultural identity. The disciplinary orientation is represented in the two key concepts, which are linked to the previous ones, occupation and occupational therapy.
As a result, a basic cultural matrix (as an identity) is designed that supports occupational choices at the regional level that highlight values such as solidarity, perseverance and family unity.