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Individuals live in the world of commonsense from beginning to end. In contrast to how religion onsets to one’s life or how one falls in the field of science , a catch expression for people to enter the realm of commonsense is this: They are born to commonsense . Indeed, from conception to birth to infancy to childhood, individuals focus almost exclusively on the body, bodily growth, sensing, and sensible experience. This chapter follows individuals and individual life commonsensically in settings from family, workplace, and community to nation-state, with scripts inscribed or conveyed in body and nature or culture and heritage, through performances such as everyday acts, sports, and entertainments, by milestones including age-graded, gender-centered, and socially sanctioned road markers, and in terms of rituals, ritual observance, and ritual significance.
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Shaw, V.N. (2019). Born to Commonsense. In: Three Worlds of Collective Human Experience: Individual Life, Social Change, and Human Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98195-6_5
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