How is society different from our common sense understanding ?

(ii) Common sense or knowledge does not always or even generally lead to spectacular results. But meaningful and unsuspected connections can be reached only by shifting through masses of connections. Great advances in sociological knowledge have been made, generally incrementally and only rarely by a dymatic breakthrough.

(iii) Sociology cannot be substitued by common sense. Common sense is unreflective since it does not questions its own origins. Or in other words it does not ask it-self. Why do I hold this view ? The Sociologist must be r eady to ask of any of our beliefs, about our-selvess-no matter how cherished- 'is this really so ?'

(iv) Both the systematic and questioning approach of sociology is derived from a broader tradition of scientific form a broader tradition of scientific investigation. This emphasis on scientific procedures can be undersitood only if we go back in time. And understand the context or social situation within which the sociological perspective emerged as sociology was greatly influenced by the great development in modern science.