orces provide shape to biological sensations, thereby creating "a strip of experience with a name, a history, a meaning, and a consequence of a certain sort" (Hochschild, 1990, p. 120). The social constructionist model of emotions posits that biological sensations have no causative role in the creation of emotions. Feeling, according to the social constructionist model of emotions, is entirely constituted by social influences. The organismic model and the social constructionist model, therefore, are the polar opposites on the continuum of the theory of emotions. The interactionist model occupies a middle ground with a recognition of both biological and social factors as causes of emotions, and an assumption that the biological and social factors interact with one another.
Emotions are not mere cognitive responses to physiological, cultural, and structural factors. Rather, the argument is that such factors represent interactive processes best studied
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