<p>I was trying to explain that most fields DO NOT contain common sense stuff, which is why I listed non-common sense stuff. </p>
<p>And I would actually like to hear some examples of anthropology that aren’t common sense (I’m trying to convince myself that it is respectable. I am not trying to debase anthropologist). </p>
<p>I bet the stuff you listed is common sense if you explained what those technical terms are. Its like psychology. I think psychology is common sense. When I studies psych at my school, I saw these technical terms and was like, man I have to learn a bunch. But then when I learned what those technical terms I was like, uhhhhhh I already knew that. Like you know the Milgram experiment? (wiki it if you don’t know. I don’t want to explain it). Well, after I read it I was like DUH. Of course people will do what is morally wrong if a more powerful person tells them to. That is so common sense that its ridiculous. Why the hell is that such a big realization in the field of psychology? or how about the fundemental attribution error? Well, I already knew people had that kind of bias.</p>
<p>that is basic stuff and it gets much more difficult and not so cut and dry as you think the higher and deeper you go. Why bother with college at all if you are already a know it all? Why not take your surface knowledge and hubris and go do some real actual work then?
The last thing the world needs is another mediocre petite bourgeois student attempting to claim some monopoly on common sense. Sorry but you are not Anthro or Psychology material. Those who do best in those fields approach with an open mind without all the ‘facts are facts’ and ‘such fact is a given one i.e. common sense’ blah blah nonsense since come to understand that life is full of contingent and contradictory facts.
If you want oversimplification and overgeneralizing and a cut and dry common sense career become a micro manager.</p>
<p>^you don’t understand taht some fields are like that. Take history. Well, I could just read history books. That’s all history is. How about a German major? I could just go live in Germany. Why deal with college for that? How about philosophy? I don’t need to go to school for that. There are fields where some people need to go to college, but others already know everything. Some college majors are like that.</p>
<p>History is not just reading history books and philosophy is not just about musing to the universe. You most likely know squat about what these majors are on an upper division level. I see students like you get squashed all the time in subjects like history and philosophy because you already think you know it all. They like to feel like they are brilliant and so knowledgeable when are barely just scraping the surface. If I tested you right now in history, anthro, psyche, or philosophy on a level with depth you would most likely fail miserably.</p>
<p>@shadowzoid, maybe you shouldn’t do anthropology since you do not understand. It is not all “common sense” since people continue to destroy and ruin cultures; and learning osteology, carbon dating, and identifying the age of a bone is not “common sense”. Tell me what person can look at bones and tell me how old it is? You need an understand of bone formation, deficiencies, and the like. </p>