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