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Przestrzeń, ciało, ego: linie działania grup turystycznych (komunikat z badań)
Space, body, ego: lines of activity of "tourist teams"

Author(s): Marek Gorzko
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Łódzki - Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Keywords: "tourist team"; tourist experience; lines of group activity

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of empirical study on interactions between people involved in tourism. The paper adresses one of the most important condition those interactions: experience of "tourist teams". Using the grounded theory methodology, the lines of activity of "tourist teams" and four basic strategies underpinning them are distinguished. These strategies are: an "assimilation" of resources rendered-accessible-space by "trying on", an interpretation by "body-operation" and using a "new" context for interpreting an "old" one. The fourth strategy, relatively independent of rendered-accessible-space is a "fun". The paper addresses some consequences of lines of activity established by "tourist teams" for identities of the team's members.

  • Issue Year: V/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 1-22
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish