Common Sense

Examples of Common Sense in the following topics:

• The Sociological Approach

  • The sociological approach goes beyond everyday common sense by using systematic methods of empirical observation and theorization.
  • The sociological approach goes beyond everyday common sense.
  • This scientific approach is what differentiates sociological knowledge from common sense.
  • For example, Peter Berger, a well-known sociologist, argued, that what distinguishes sociology from common sense is that sociologists:
  • Explain how the sociological approach differs from a "common sense" understanding of the social world

• Paine's Common Sense

  • Common Sense presented the colonists with an argument for freedom from Britain when the question of independence was still undecided.
  • First published anonymously in January 1776, before the American Revolution, Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided.
  • Thomas Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood.
  • Forgoing the philosophy and Latin references used by Enlightenment era writers, Paine structured Common Sense like a sermon and relied on Biblical references to make his case to the people.
  • Illiterate colonists could hear Common Sense read at public gatherings, thus bringing even the illiterate into this new political world.

• Is everything recyclable?

  • Clearly, there is no substitute for research, common sense, and basic safety that errs on the side of caution when it comes to recycling.

• Introduction

  • The primary aim is to illustrate how sociologists go beyond common sense understandings in trying to explain or understand social phenomena.

• Inclusion of All Five Senses

  • The inclusion of the five human senses in a single work takes place most often in installation and performance art.
  • In addition, works that strive to include all senses at once generally make use of some form of interactivity, as the sense of taste clearly must involve the participation of the viewer.
  • Historically, this attention to all senses was reserved to ritual and ceremony.
  • In contemporary art, it is quite common for work to cater to the senses of sight, touch, and hearing, while somewhat less common for art to address the senses of smell and taste.
  • Explain how installation and performance art include the five senses of the viewer

• Identity Formation

  • Indeed, the holiday would make little sense if one did not possess a sense of national identity.
  • Pieces of the individual's actual identity include a sense of continuity, a sense of uniqueness from others, and a sense of affiliation.
  • Similarly, an ethnic identity is the identification with a certain ethnicity, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.
  • Members of a nation share a common identity and usually a common origin in their sense of ancestry, parentage, or descent.
  • Fourth of July is only meaningful as a celebration of independence for individuals who share a sense of national identity as Americans.

• Reception

  • Senses provide information about the body and its environment.
  • Although the sensory systems associated with these senses are very different, all share a common function: to convert a stimulus (light, sound, or the position of the body) into an electrical signal in the nervous system.
  • Think for a moment about the differences in receptive fields for the different senses.
  • For the sense of touch, a stimulus must come into contact with body.
  • For the sense of hearing, a stimulus can be a moderate distance away.

• Positive-Strand RNA Viruses of Animals

  • Single stranded RNA viruses can be classified according to the sense or polarity of their RNA into negative-sense and positive-sense, or ambisense RNA viruses.
  • Negative-sense viral RNA is complementary to mRNA and thus must be converted to positive-sense RNA by an RNA polymerase before translation.
  • Purified RNA of a negative-sense virus is not infectious by itself as it needs to be transcribed into positive-sense RNA; each virion can be transcribed to several positive-sense RNAs.
  • A common viral positive-strand RNA viruses that infect humans are the picornaviruses.
  • The diseases they cause are varied, ranging from acute "common-cold"-like illnesses, to poliomyelitis, to chronic infections in livestock.

• Quorum Sensing

  • Quorum sensing is a system of stimulus and response correlated to population density.
  • Quorum sensing is a system of stimulus and response correlated to population density.
  • Quorum sensing may be achieved by degrading the signalling molecule.
  • Some of the best-known examples of quorum sensing come from studies of bacteria.
  • Common classes of signaling molecules are oligopeptides in Gram-positive bacteria, N-Acyl Homoserine Lactones (AHL) in Gram-negative bacteria, and a family of autoinducers known as autoinducer-2 (AI-2) in both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.

• Negative-Strand RNA Viruses of Animals

  • Animal RNA viruses can be classified according to the sense or polarity of their RNA into negative-sense, positive-sense, or ambisense RNA viruses.
  • The RNA found in a negative-sense virus is not infectious by itself, as it needs to be transcribed into positive-sense RNA.
  • The complementary plus-sense mRNA must be made before proteins can be translated from the viral genome.
  • Each virion that has one negative-strand copy can be transcribed to several positive-sense RNAs.
  • The infection of domestic animals with rabies was common until the 1960s; now most instances of rabies-infected animals are found in the wild.