Socionics identifies and describes 16 basic personality types. Synonyms:
- personality type
- socionic type
- sociotype.
Each type is characterized by its own special perception of the world, behavior style and thinking. Knowing your type gives each person the opportunity not only to understand themselves, recognize their strengths and weaknesses, understand their internal needs and determine the paths to their personal realization, but also to understand their relationships with others. Socionics allows you to describe and even predict relationships between people depending on their personality types, and this distinguishes it from all other psychological typologies. In addition to a general description of the psychological characteristics of the type, socionics provides a description (and this is the most interesting!) of how each type is structured, its consciousness and subconscious, what its strengths and weaknesses are. Such knowledge helps a person feel more secure and confident in his life.
A few words about the names of socionic types. In practice, socionics specialists use so-called pseudonyms. It is inconvenient to say: "intuitive-ethical extrovert". At the dawn of the development of socionics, it was easier to call a socionic type by the name of a famous historical figure or literary hero who would correspond to this type. These names were well-known, their biographies were known. Books from the ZhZL (Life of Remarkable People) series were published in huge print runs and enjoyed great popularity. The creator of socionics, Ausra Augustinavichyute, had a whole bookcase with such biographical literature. And no one had a question about who "Huxley" was – everyone knew that he was a friend of Darwin and an active popularizer of his ideas. Among the pseudonyms there are many names of famous writers: Hugo, Dumas, Gorky, Yesenin, Jack London, Dreiser, Dostoevsky. Indeed, who better than a writer can lift the curtain on the inner world of his socionic type!
And there are also "Don Quixote", "Descartes", "Hamlet" and others. And behind each pseudonym there is a specific image.
Let's take, for example, the "Zhukov" type. It is also called "Marshal" because among people of this type there are many outstanding military leaders or rebels (we can recall Razin, Pugachev, B. Khmelnitsky). And the actor Mikhail Ulyanov succeeded in the image of Marshal Zhukov so well largely because they belong to the same type – only when an actor plays a hero of the same type as himself, he conveys all the shades of his behavior, otherwise a caricature may result.
Nowadays, many socionics specialists use functional names for types:Inventor,Analyst,Entrepreneur,Critic,Administratoretc. This approach is common for English-language literature on typology and management. You will find these same titles on our website.