on's sentient nature. Within the context of the uncertainty that characterizes a person's perception of her or his standing in a society, "one important clue is how we feel" (p. 119).
A number of models are applied to explain perception (Hochschild, p. 119). The major difference between these models is the significance accorded in them to social influence. The social constructionist model accords the greatest level of importance to social influence, followed in order by the interactionist model and the organismic in according significance in the formation of perceptions to social influences. The organismic model posits that "social influences enter in only to elicit feeling, and to regulate expression" (p. 119). The interactionist model builds on the base of the organismic model to posit that social factors "enter not simply before and after but interactively during the experience of emotion" (p. 119). Thus, the interactionist model recognizes more "points of social entry" than
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