Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought: An Analysis of Social Interaction

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of boxes
Preface and Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
1. An Introduction to the Notion of Common Sense
	Introduction
	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
	Summary
2. Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought
	Introduction
	Paradigms of Thought: How Social Order Should Be Structured
	Tradition
	Faith
	Enlightened, Rational Thought
	Common Sense
	Summary
3. Explaining Common Sense: From the Ancient Greeks to the Early Twentieth Century
	Introduction
	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
	Summary
4. Explaining Common Sense: From the Early Twentieth Century to the Postmodern Era
	Introduction
	Contemporary Scholarship in the Study of Common Sense
	Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Common Sense
	Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
	Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002)
	Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005)
	Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997)
	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
	Summary
5. Leaning About and Adhering to Common Sense
	Introduction
	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
	Summary
6. Violating Common Sense: Uncommon Sense
	Introduction
	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
	The Stella Awards
	Dumb Criminals
	Not Adhering to Common Sense
	Uncommon Sense: It’s Bad for Our Health
	Common, Uncommon Sense
	Summary
7. Can Common Sense Rise as the Prevailing Paradigm of Thought?
	Introduction
	Common Sense in Review
	The Limitations of Common Sense
	Enlightened, Rational Thought Should be the Prevailing Paradigm of Thought
	Summary
Appendix A “Common, Common Sense”
Appendix B “Tim-isms”
Appendix C “Common, Uncommon Sense”
Bibliography
Index