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“If we think we decide our own fate, we may be quick to praise very successful people as superior and consider others with fewer achievements personally deficient” (Macionis 10). This was my point of view of a waitress’s life before I experienced it for myself. After leaning what “common sense” is, having an experience dealing with “common sense,” and looking at the outcome of my experience made my point of view change.
A person may wonder what is “common sense”? Common sense is the sociological perspective that helps us evaluate the truth (Macionis 10). This specific definition allows people not to just assume something about a specific person’s situation. For example, people including myself, may think that all waitresses do is take drinks and food orders. Or they may think is a person is a waitress they are lazy because they do not want to get a “real” job. But with the sociological perspective, the point of view that allows people to see the general pattern of society and a particular person’s situation (Macionis 3) allows us to reconsider our idea about common sense. This may happen for a person when they actually experience their particular though about a specific situation. …show more content…

When a person is one their feet for 8 hours straight they will begin to throb, and feel like they are about to fall off. A person will also begin to feel tired and feel like they cannot go anymore. This is due to the fact that there are no breaks with in the whole shift, barely have enough time to get a drink of water in. When the shift is supposed to end at nine is truly ends at ten. This is due to the fact that there are several chores that have to be accomplished before being able to clock out. As a person can see being a waitress can cause exhaustion for a person and is harder than people think it

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