The Summer School Series

The article describes the scientific outcomes of the "community of practice" born during the various editions of the International Summer Schools on Grounded Theory and Qualitative Methods. Indeed, these high educational courses have experienced the development of a fruitful theoretical, methodological, and training exchange between EU-SSSI members, the research group about Symbolic Interactionism (SI), qualitative methods (QM) and Grounded Theory (GT) of the Department of Political Science – University of Pisa (I, II, and IV Editions), and the parallel group of Vytautas Magnus University – Lithuania (III Edition). The final purpose of this intersectional collaboration among scholars, students, and professionals – of which the book is only an expression – is to build a real community of practice around the theoretical and methodological themes of SI and QM.