Symbol analysis is understood as a comprehensive task of the humanities, cultural sciences, and social sciences. With the hermeneutically oriented symbol analysis, methodological operations and interpretation techniques from ethnography, grounded theory, and objective hermeneutics are practically connected in research. This relevant foundational work deals with the diversity of symbolic forms of expression and their interpretive exploration. Thus, it is fundamentally a textbook-like introduction that also serves as a methodological manifesto for an open research program, to which a series of future projects are intended to be connected.