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Assignment 2 - Key Perspectives in Sociology a) Common sense is a person's own sound judgment after a simple perception of the situation or facts based upon what is believed to be knowledge held by the general population or mankind as a whole, such as grass is green or the sky is blue during the daytime. It is what we believe to be true, from personal experience. But it is not necessarily the case and has no particular research to back it up - and can reflect a degree of personal prejudice. This differs greatly from Sociology. The simplest definition of sociology is "the study of people in social groups" (Paul Taylor et al. 2005 P.1). Study being the operative word. Sociology is the study of public issues to do with social institutions, social groups and societies as a whole in a systematic way, providing research and evidence to back up...

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