Expert Advice

The Mystification of Common Sense

Bibliographic Data

ID2928824
AuthorsJudith L Kapferer (a Flinders University of South Australia), Judith Kapferer (Flinders University, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume10
Issue2
Pages36-50
Publication date1990-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0159630900100203a
OpenAlexW4255464324
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

The dialectical relation of ideology and common sense is explored here through an examination of the school‐family couple as an ideological state apparatus. It is argued that the production and promotion of expertise is crucial to the maintenance of social and cultural control. A case in point is taken to be the power of psychologists, with their emphasis upon the structuring of individual behaviour in the service of the State. The moralism of the experts is couched in terms of professionalism and expertise, particularly in the case of child‐rearing and socialisation. This produces a bureaucratisation and further control of activities (such as leisure and sexuality) once considered beyond the purview of the formal organisations of the State

Business · Common sense · Dialectic · Electrical engineering · Epistemology · Ideology · Management · Political science · Politics · Programming language · Public relations · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Structuring · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Early Childhood Education and Development · Engineering · Law · Parental Involvement in Education · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology

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