Social Stress: Theory and Related Topics
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Social Stress : Theory and Related Topics
By Orgil Altankhuyag 20120123046
MBB S(Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery) student of Anhui Medical University
Submitted in 2015/2/27
Key words: Symbolic interaction, Functionalism, Serotonin deficient, Stressors, Life events, Individual, General Adaptation Syndrome
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Abstract
In this project, I want to discuss about stress, social stress theories, theories involved and what makes individual more suspectible to stress socially. Also I wanted to show the mechanism of stress response with Cannon`s concept of “fight or flight” and what makes a person more suspectible Serotonin Stress theory.
First, is about human …show more content…
From the symbolic interactionist approach, the identity theory suggests that 1. human behavior is dependent on a world in which physical and social aspects of the environment are named and classified and; 2. the names carry meaning in the form of shared behavioral expectations (Stryker 1980) . Named things are important positions within society that carry shared expectations for behavior, roles and an action. Individuals that are assuming the roles label themselves as they are in that position, and these so called labels or names comes with an expectations for the individual and other`s behavior. When people name themselves in certain position, that name and shared meaning that comes with it, as form of expectations, become a part of the self within that role or role …show more content…
I guess as a response, Holmes (Holmes & Rahe, 1967; Holmes & Masuda, 1974) hypothesized that events that disrupt or interrupts the previous state and activities. And these changes would be the source of social psychological stressors. Also they based their research on the work of Meyer (1951) and developed the nowadays most influential chart the “Social Readjustment Rating scale”. This scale was developed by Holmes and Rahe to accurately measure the relationship between certain event and stress that comes with it. More importantly this chart had value that would basically show much readjustment would it need. So these were valued for the amount of readjustment demanded, and further research found that the more these events happened more people would some how get sick or become ill, but it was only a possibility. Most important factor was change apart from it`s direction, it didn’t matter if it was good or bad, desirable or undesirable. As Mirowsky and Ross (1989) point out, however, as researchers began to apply these ideas to psychological distress rather than somatic distress, they also began to question the assumption that change
Orgil Altankhuyag
Social Stress : Theory and Related Topics
By Orgil Altankhuyag 20120123046
MBB S(Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery) student of Anhui Medical University
Submitted in 2015/2/27
Key words: Symbolic interaction, Functionalism, Serotonin deficient, Stressors, Life events, Individual, General Adaptation Syndrome
Word count:
Abstract
In this project, I want to discuss about stress, social stress theories, theories involved and what makes individual more suspectible to stress socially. Also I wanted to show the mechanism of stress response with Cannon`s concept of “fight or flight” and what makes a person more suspectible Serotonin Stress theory.
First, is about human …show more content…
From the symbolic interactionist approach, the identity theory suggests that 1. human behavior is dependent on a world in which physical and social aspects of the environment are named and classified and; 2. the names carry meaning in the form of shared behavioral expectations (Stryker 1980) . Named things are important positions within society that carry shared expectations for behavior, roles and an action. Individuals that are assuming the roles label themselves as they are in that position, and these so called labels or names comes with an expectations for the individual and other`s behavior. When people name themselves in certain position, that name and shared meaning that comes with it, as form of expectations, become a part of the self within that role or role …show more content…
I guess as a response, Holmes (Holmes & Rahe, 1967; Holmes & Masuda, 1974) hypothesized that events that disrupt or interrupts the previous state and activities. And these changes would be the source of social psychological stressors. Also they based their research on the work of Meyer (1951) and developed the nowadays most influential chart the “Social Readjustment Rating scale”. This scale was developed by Holmes and Rahe to accurately measure the relationship between certain event and stress that comes with it. More importantly this chart had value that would basically show much readjustment would it need. So these were valued for the amount of readjustment demanded, and further research found that the more these events happened more people would some how get sick or become ill, but it was only a possibility. Most important factor was change apart from it`s direction, it didn’t matter if it was good or bad, desirable or undesirable. As Mirowsky and Ross (1989) point out, however, as researchers began to apply these ideas to psychological distress rather than somatic distress, they also began to question the assumption that change