Symbols
• People learn symbols in social interaction.
• “Symbols are social objects used to represent whatever people agree they shall represent” (Charon, 1998: 47).
• For example, words (boat), artifacts (a cross) or goods, and physical actions (to put finger on the nose and the mouth). All of these are symbols.
• Because of the symbols, people can actively create and re-create the world.
• Symbols improves people’s ability to think.