Week 3 Objects

The object I chose to analyze is a ring or rings. Rings are usually referred to as a piece of jewelry. They are usually of a circular shape and sometimes have a gem, design, or charm on them. Rings can mean various things to a person. Rings can be used to represent an accomplishment, such as graduation rings when graduating high school or college or championship rings such as Super Bowl rings. Rings can represent someone's commitment to another human being, such as wedding rings, engagement rings, or promise rings. Rings can also signify personal choices a person has made, such as chastity rings. Rings can simply just be fashion object sometimes too. For me personally rings are just a fashion object. Some rings I cherish more than others if they came from someone important to me.

Rings came into existence a long time ago, people of royalty used to me bathed in jewelry, including rings. Over time rings have become to represent more than just royalty. Such as mentioned earlier, rings can signify marital status. Rings have served as an index in society for marriage. The size of an engagement ring is sometimes meant to determine how wealthy the groom may be. Wedding bands tell people whether or not a person is married or not when it comes to the dating world to prevent people of having to ask a person, instead people just look for a ring. I believe this object will still exist in the future because rings serve so many different meanings it's hard to believe that all these meaning will disappear.

As described earlier this object is used for many different reasons. Rings are usually bought and sold in jewelry stores. Rings can be special ordered too. Some rings are earned, such as the rings given for accomplishments. Other rings can be passed down from generation to generation. The existence of rings affects people differently depending on what the ring means to them. Accomplishment rings affect people by allowing them to have something to visually see all the hard work they have done has paid off. Wedding rings, engagement rings, and promise rings affect people because they represent a commitment that someone special has made to them. Fashion rings affect people by allowing people to feel fashionable or pretty by wearing a particular ring. Usually the people wearing the ring are the people who benefit from the ring. People that suffer from rings are people who have not made a significant accomplishment to get a ring, people who have not found that person to give them a special ring, or people who cannot afford the ring they have always wanted. The social interactions that stem from its use and interaction have briefly been described already. As mentioned earlier the social interaction that stems from the meaning of rings are in the dating world. People only approach people who do not have a ring because they know they are single and will not be wasting their time. People may have more respect for someone who has a ring that represents an accomplishment. I believe rings tell many things about our society. One being the fact that we value materialistic objects. Even though rings are materialistic object they have different meanings for different people. They also show us how society give great meaning to materialistic objects.

Rings do exist in other countries as as the U.S. Rings, however, tend to have different meanings. For example my dad is from Pakistan and in Pakistan rings are used primarily in fashion, at least for women. They do not have marital rings. I do not know of any countries that alter rings and used from for different meaning than the ones that have been mentioned. Rings can be made from various materials that can determine their value, from gold, silver, and white gold.