How is sociology different from common sense?
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In everyday life, people think and act on the basis of 'common sense': we are so immersed in local norms, routines, and practices that we think of them as natural and inevitable.
By contrast, sociologists think critically about how these rules have been created; they distinguish between the way the world is and the way they think it ought to be. They build up a cumulative knowledge, drawing on the research of other sociologists, and so can make some more general statements about the society.
Sociology is a method of inquiry which collects life and pragmatic knowlrdge based on scientific evidence. Whereas common sense not necessarily is scientific. Common sense is based on experiences we learn through imitation of symbols and languages and interpreted by different people in different ways.