Ordinary practical consciousness is the most primitive level of consciousness, the natural form of knowledge in society, formed as a way of spontaneous awareness of the experiences of everyday life by people.
At the level of ordinary consciousness, representatives of the society, in one way or another, realize the accepted meanings of social being, without using the means and methods of cognitive activity organized specifically. Ordinary consciousness describes all phenomena of life at the level of everyday ideas and conclusions from simple observations that are imposed on the representatives of the society, as "rules of the game", are absorbed and used by them to some extent.
About scientific consciousness
Scientific theoretical consciousness, in contrast to the ordinary, is a higher form, since it describes the essential connections and regularities between objects and phenomena in a demonstrative manner with the greatest possible accuracy.
From ordinary consciousness, the scientific differs both in the rigor of the approach, and in reliance on the preliminary basic scientific knowledge from which it emanates. Ordinary and theoretical consciousness are in a state of interaction. In relation to ordinary consciousness, the theoretical is secondary, although, in turn, it changes it. It should be understood that the stable forms and stereotypes of ordinary consciousness are not the ultimate truth in various cases, since they are limited by the empirical level. Attempts at comprehension at this level often create illusions, false expectations and misconceptions (both at the personal and the public level). Meanwhile, everyday life without ordinary consciousness is impossible.
Scientific and theoretical consciousness, which by virtue of the specifics of the mass can not be, continues to operate exclusively at the level of rational and pragmatic, which is natural for the organization of any high universal human forms of culture.
On the value of everyday consciousness
One should not regard ordinary consciousness as inferior, although, to some extent, it is a real reflection of the social consciousness of the broad masses, which are at a certain level of cultural development (often it is very low).
The ordinary consciousness of a healthy society differs wholeness, harmony, which ensures its vitality. Thus, ordinary consciousness (as a reflection) is closer to reality than any other form of consciousness. Actually, from the sum of the experience of everyday consciousness of society there is philosophy, religion, ideology, science and art as special higher forms of social consciousness. They are, in a broad sense, the content of culture.