Identity theory distinguishes three bases of identity-role, group, and person-but studies have typically focused on one identity at a time. The interrelationship among the multiple bases of identity remains understudied. This study examines the multiple bases of identity individuals engage on their way to becoming ministry students. The results reveal the advantage of examining the multiple bases of identity as subcultural processes, the utility of qualitative research for expanding the empirical scope of identity theory, and the possibility of employing structural symbolic interactionist concepts within a processual symbolic interactionist agenda. ). Broadly, his research engages the sociologies of morality and social problems, self and identity, and subcultures and everyday life, with an emphasis on developing formal theoretical accounts of social processes that are empirically grounded in the comparative ethnographic examination of manifold social worlds. Currently, his research is focused on developing interactionist accounts of character and competence.