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

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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