Mental Health | Sociological Perception

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Introduction
Stress from the sociological perspective changing according to the time and
developing continually within the society that involves intellectual refinement. In this regard
Hochschild (2018) in his classical work mentioned important aspects of stressors, its
connection and consequences in the emotional dimension along with the influencing factors
linked with stressor and its outcome. The study demonstrates the sociological perception
associated with mental health with proper explanation of stress model, practices, and its role
in the community. The study will exhibit the status of stress in different stages.
Discussion
The core responsibilities of the sociologists is to structure and investigate the
conditions behind the stress process. The investigation procedure includes the domains of
quality, arrangement, tensions, and the change to identify the complexity of its origin and the
emotional inequality. Hence, sociologists incorporate the study of the empirical and
sociological scope to demonstrate the concept of stress and its connection with emotional
inequality (Schieman 2019).
Connection between emotional inequality and stress
The essential component to gain competitive strength for survival in the society is
confidence. Driving the capability of social competence confidence is the key aspect that
influence people to perform any activity within the community. Hochschild made a
connection between emotion and the concept of social inequalities with the term of feeling
rules that is considered as ‘the underside of ideology’. Hochschild made a connection
between gender equality with the concept of emotional equality. To analyze the theoretical
framework of Hochschild, Pearlin mentioned the structural arrangements of the lifestyles of
common people (Schieman 2019). In this regard, the researcher mentioned about role-based

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identities within the social interaction. (Shanafelt et al. 2015) mentioned that the social
interaction theory is based on the social mind that is affected through numbers of unobserved
assumptions. According to the theorists, people tend to single out the widely shared
assumption that determines the social behavior depending on the capabilities of the
individuals. Contrarily, the sociological and developmental studies provide importance to the
capacity of individual for detached social cognition.
Hence, people learn to shape the concept of socialization through performing different
social roles. One of its elements is cultural force – it is an invisible contribution towards the
construction of socialization procedure. Hence, the researchers mentioned that there is a
greater connection between mental health and stress to determine the compelling patterns of
the emotional inequality.
Work-life balance and stress
The study also mentioned about the concept of work-life balance and its connection
with stress and emotional inequality. Kim (2014) defined the term work-life balance as the
procedure to establish a balance between professional and personal life. There are some
senses of expectations, responsibilities, and obligation related to both the domains of life that
must be excluded from each other. To put it simply, it can be said that, the responsibilities
and obligations of professional life must not intervene with the personal and vice versa.
Nagel (2018) mentioned about some interventions associated workplace that impacts on the
personal life to contribute more strength for the concept of emotional inequality.
Silver (2014) considers this aspect of work-life balance and terms this concept as
socioeconomic imbalance. It is not limited to the domain of educational attainment, economic
security, and perception about the social class. It also includes the concept of quality life as
an opportunity to provide privilege to the people surviving within the society. Hence, the