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Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought : An Analysis of Social Interaction / by Delaney, Tim

Table of Contents: “…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 -- Summary -- Chapter 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 -- 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 -- Summary -- 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" -- Summary -- 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!" …”
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What intelligence tests miss the psychology of rational thought / by Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing -- Mindware gaps -- Contaminated mindware -- How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence -- The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.…”
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