In order to survive and interact with the other members of the society, it is crucial for us to understand what the other people are thinking about and what the underlying factors that contribute to their behavior are. In our daily life, people are continuously interpreting and explaining others behavior, sometimes even without aware of it themselves. How does this knowledge of interpreting the others come about? And is it a reliable method?Most people are using common sense explanation to interpret human behavior, while social scientists will explain our world by social science theories. What are they? And which one can give a more reliable and accurate account for human behavior?Common Sense Explanations are formed basing on individual's past experiences or were passed down from the last generations. It is the most basic and simple form of knowledge that helps us to survive. For instance, people understand that it will be hurt when a ball is throwing at them and in result, they will run away from it.
We use the common sense to perceive the world we are living in. It is unimaginable if a person does not possess any common sense at all.
Social Science Theories, like the theories in natural science, are derived from scientific methods. They are either induced or deduced from different task or experiment. But since the subject matter in social sciences is completely different from that of natural science, observation, survey and interview which sometimes involves a control group, are the methodology used to test the experimental hypotheses, instead of using laboratory experiments. Hence, social science theories are backed up by empirical studies and data, and therefore should be more widely applicable, objective and reliability to explain human behavior.
Unlike social science theories, "common sense" is held by everyone. Therefore, people can...
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Its a valued addition to the site....concise...sources stated...i agree with a social science theory to explain human behavior. Once i did some research into genes and its link with language. Scientists found a gene on chromosome 7 which is called FOXP2 i think...and this has been linked in language acquisition...hence I'm more prone to accept scientific theories to explain things rather than because its just accepted at that or COMMON Sense explains it to be that way.
If i watch a lot of violent movies, then I don't want to kill people....or to do the acts portrayed by the movies....its just a form of entertainment.
However, if i was severely hurt during my childhood, id want to take revenge on the people that cause me pain....u know? so i agree we have to look at the child's background and so on....
Common sense cannot be relied upon for an acceptable explanation, since it would be prone to defects like a hypothesis is just an assumption in scientific experiments and then u get to prove that hypothesis or in the end, the hypothesis can be contradicted.....\
Anyways good job and its a good addition ot the site.....
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