The notion of common sense and abiding by its implications is something that, seemingly, everyone agrees is a good way of making behavioral decisions and conducting one's daily activities. This holds true whether one is a liberal, moderate, or conservative; young or old; and regardless of one's race and ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. If utilizing common sense is such a good idea, why then, do so many people seem to violate it? This is just one of many significant questions surrounding the idea of common sense explored and discussed in this book.
This volume presents common sense as a paradigm of thought and as such, compares it to other major categories of thought tradition, faith, enlightened and rational. Combining a balance of practical, everyday approaches (through the use of popular culture references and featured boxes) and academic analysis of core and conceptual methodological issues, Delaney demonstrates:
The limitations of common sense and its place in everyday social interactions
How we learn about common sense
Why common sense is so important
Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought introduces readers to a rich variety of sociological authors and will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as: sociology, philosophy, social psychology, cultural studies, communications and health studies.
Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Notion of Common Sense, Introductory
Story, It's a Matter of Common Sense, To Purchase, Or Not to Purchase: Which
Option is Common Sense?, Is the Earth Flat or Round: What Does Common Sense
Tell Us?, Staring at the Sun: Common Sense Tells Us Not to Do It (Even if
there is a Rare Eclipse), The Study of Common Sense: A Focus on the Everyday
Interactions of Individuals , Popular Culture Box 1: Learning Common Sense
from Popular Culture,
Chapter 2: Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought,
Introductory Story , Paradigms of Thought: How Social Order Should Be
Structured , Tradition, Tradition: The First Paradigm of Thought, Ancient
Traditions, Middle Ages Traditions, Modern Traditions, Faith, Faith: The
Second Paradigm of Thought, Religion, Past Monarchies, Royalty, and the
Divine Rights of Kings, Modern Monarchies, Enlightened, Rational Thought ,
Enlightened, Rational Thought: The Third Paradigm of Thought, The Age of
Enlightenment , Science and Technology in the Contemporary Era, The
Conservative Reaction to Enlightened, Rational Thought, Common Sense , Common
Sense: The Fourth Paradigm of Thought, Popular Culture Box 2: "How Can
Scientific Truth Be Hearsay?"Dr. Zira, chimpanzee animal psychologist from
the original Planet of the Apes (1968),
Chapter 3: Explaining Common Sense:
From the Ancient Greeks to the Early Twentieth Century, Introductory Story,
Examining Common Sense, The Ancient Greeks and Modern Philosophy: Common
Sense and Skepticism, Ancient Greek Skepticism, Modern Philosophy and
Skepticism: Rene Descartes and David Hume, Thomas Reid and Common Sense, G.E.
Moore: Refutation of Skepticism and the Promotion of Common Sense, Bertrand
Russell and Common Sense, Thomas Paine and Common Sense, Karl Marx, Conflict
Theory and Common Sense , Max Weber, Rationality and Common Sense , C. Wright
Mills, Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motives and Common Sense ,
Symbolic Interactionism, Social Action and Common Sense, William James,
Pragmatism, Habits, and Consciousness, Charles Horton Cooley, Symbols,
Language, and Social Interaction, George Herbert Mead, Pragmatism, the Social
Act, Gestures, and Language, Herbert Blumer, Meanings, Language, Gestures,
and Social Action, Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self and Common Sense,
Phenomenology and Common Sense, Edmund Husserl, The Rudiments of Common
Sense, Alfred Schutz, The Life-World, Stocks of Knowledge and Common Sense,
Peter Berger, The Social Construction of Reality and Common Sense,
Ethnomethodology and the Commonsense World, Harold Garfinkel,
Taken-for-Granted World, Accounts and the Commonsense World, Popular Culture
Box 3: "The Heresy of Heresies was Common Sense"George Orwell, Nineteen
Eighty-Four,
Chapter 4: Explaining Common Sense: From the Early Twentieth
Century to the Postmodern Era , Contemporary Scholarship in the Study of
Common Sense, Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Common Sense, Martin Heidegger,
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Cornelius Castoriadis, Antonio Gramsci and
Common Sense, Jurgen Habermas and Common Sense, Immanuel Wallerstein and
Common Sense, Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory and Common Sense, Randall
Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains and Common Sense, McDonnell, Bail and
Tavory, Resonance Theory and Common Sense, Feminism and Post-feminism and
Common Sense, Postmodernism and Common Sense, Posthumanism and Transhumanism,
Postcolonialism, Popular Culture Box 4: Posthumanism and the Rise of
Machines,
Chapter 5: Learning About and Adhering to Common Sense,
Introductory Story, Common Sense Is Learned Behavior, The Socialization
Process: A Critical Aspect of Learning About Common Sense, Primary Groups,
Agents of Socialization, Cyber Socialization and Social Media, Observation
and Personal Experience, The Development of Enlightened Rational Thought and
Reason, Social Theoretical Explanations on How We Learn and Common Sense,
Social Learning Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Subcultural Theory,
Anomie/Strain Theory, Differential Association Theory, Labeling Theory ,
Control/Social Bond Theory , Adhering to Common Sense, Common Sense, Common,
Common Sense , Popular Culture Box 5: "Robots Lack Common Sense, But They
Will Shape Future Employment",
Chapter 6: Violating Common Sense: Uncommon
Sense , Introductory Story, Impediments to Common Sense: , Failure to Learn,
The Lack of a Formal Higher Education, Overly Emotional and Irrational Fear,
Believing in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstitions and Other Oddities,
Ignorance and Stupidity, People Doing Dumb and Stupid Things: The Award Goes
To , Darwin Awards, Stella Awards, Dumb Criminals , Not Adhering to Common
Sense, Uncommon Sense: It's Bad for Our Health, Common, Uncommon Sense,
Popular Culture Box 6: "If Seemingly Every Decision You Make in Life Turns
Out to Be a Matter of Uncommon Sense, Do the Opposite!" ,
Chapter 7: Can
Common Sense Rise as the Prevailing Paradigm of Thought?, Introductory Story,
Common Sense in Review, The Limitations of Common Sense, Enlightened,
Rational Thought Should be the Prevailing Paradigm of Thought, Popular
Culture Box 7: "Testing Your Common Sense".
Tim Delaney is a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Oswego, USA
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