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Anna Kacperczyk
University of Łódź, Poland
Editorial: Becoming of a Mountain Rescuer.
The article presents problems of the paper Constructing the identity of a mountain rescuer. A symbolic-interactionist analysis by Piotr Miller. Anna Kacperczyk presents basic assumptions and the most important conclusions of the aforementioned paper.
Keywords:
Mountain Rescue, Becoming Studies, Qualitative Analysis, Symbolic Interactionism, Identity.
Piotr Miller
University of Łódź, Poland
Constructing the identity of a mountain rescuer. A symbolic-interactionist analysis.
The main goal of this paper was to reconstruct the process of constructing the identity of a mountain rescuer. The author was interested in capturing its course and finding the factors that might have some influence on it. In the first part, the theoretical and methodological context of a research, that was the base of the paper, would be presented, including the presentation of grounded theory as a research strategy that was used. Main aspects of the process – with its main stages, dimensions and subprocesses would be described in details in the empirical chapter.
Keywords:
Mountain Rescue, Qualitative Analysis, Symbolic Interactionism, Identity, Grounded Theory, Mountain Rescuers' Career.
