“I GOT PROFESSION AND I’M WELL EDUCATED…”. THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF MEN, AS THEIR CREATION OF SELF-STRATEGIES

Abstract

The main goal of the paper is description of strategies created by men, when they build their own image. The Author states that main component of self­creation is men’s profession, especially cultural meaning linked with given activities realized within men’s professional actions. Raising that issue leads the Author into two problems. On the one hand, the paper shows idea of interpretational efficiency – in case of using “hard (quantitative) data” as a source of qualitative interpretation. On the second hand, it shows the way of using by men descriptions of professions and cultural meaning as a tool of men’s self­creation strategies. The Author suggests that men tend to create such self­creation (self­image), which is stable grounded at social respect, moreover it will be an answer to expectations of modern women.