Object and Meaning
• Objects are something “out there” in the real world.
• It can be a chair or a tree (physical objects), a student or a mother (social object), and an idea or a moral principle (abstract object).
• One same object can have different meanings for different individuals.
• For example, “a tree will be a different object to a botanist, a lumberman, a poet, and a home gardener” (Blumer, 1969b: 11).
• Individuals learn the meanings of objects during the socialization process.