First, to be able to indicate something means to be able to take it from its setting and to hold it apart and give it a meaning or to make it into an object. Second, his action is constructed or builds up instead of being a mere release. He takes into account different things and interprets them and their significance. This happens in all conscious action. Mead acknowledges that the action by the individual in the process of self-indication takes place in a social context.
Group action takes the form of a fitting together of individuals actions.
Each individual aligns his action to the actions of others by deciding what they are doing or what they intend to do. In this role, the individual wants to know the intention or direction of the acts of others and he forms and aligns his actions on the basis of the other s actions. This is the way group action takes place in human society. Human society is made up of individuals who have selves, that individual action is a construction, not a release, that group or collective action consists of aligning of individuals actions by either interpreting or taking into accounts of each other s actions. Since Blumer s purpose was to present and not defend symbolic interaction, he only meant to point out that the premises can be verified easily and empirically.