The difference between commonsense assumption and sociology expiation

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The difference between commonsense assumption and sociology expiation

Commonsense assumption is the subjective idea of human being, which represents the view that everybody knows about the social world or human behavior. Moreover, each individual has different exposition of it, which depends on the own experience, class, race, background, occuption, education, family and etc. in other words, these assumptions can be explained in terms of an individualistic and naturalistic ideology. The reason of this is the individuals use their own knowledge and method to build commonsense statements, which apart from sociological forms. Hence, this kind of commonsense perception may not be objective and be illustrated via the investigations as well. On the contrary, sociological knowledge is more plausible, because it be examined through the wide confirmation of human behaviors, which concerned with realities rather than superficial supposition.

Now I am going to show five typical samples below to be in favor of this version.

First sample is if a women walking alone at night is in greater dangerous of sexual assault rape by a stranger than a women in a familiar place with a men she knows According to the commonsense knowledge, the majority of people advocate this point of view. Since it looks apparently as validity. However sociological research in particular "the women's safety survey" contradicts this commonsense assumption totally. Actually, as this statistics illustrated, only 25 percent of rapes and 50 percent of sexual assaults involved strangers. Several women may not tell this emergency to the police after suffering it because the rapist is an acquaintance. What is more, the most common places for rape or assault are also familiar with the victim. Therefore, evidently, the commonsense assumption is different from the sociology.
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As the example 2 shows to us, the outlook of men are naturally more aggressive than women is widely accepted by lots people without proof. However, strictly speaking, from the biological principle, all human beings have the capacity to be aggressive, whatever male or female. But the factors of why men tend to use violence to solve problems more readily are culture and expectations. Men's behaviors are not be controlled tightly by others, whilst others can limit women' s. For instance, if a girl is very aggressive, her parents will pay more attention to her and try to ...

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