Common sense ideology is the adoption of the dominant societies values, attitudes, and beliefs that shape the way it views reality. Common sense ideologies are based on locale. People in a rural or wilderness area will share certain beliefs about safety and protection from animals while in urban areas, people learn to cross streets safely. Common sense is a dominant idea about society and our place in it. Capitalists believe that you can succeed monetarily if you work for it hard enough which is a common sense ideology specific to capitalism and justifies the social structure of capitalism as just and valid. Cultural hegemony, or our tacit agreement with the way that things are, is a result of the process of socialization, our experiences
