On Effective Areas of Activity of Socionics Types

On effective areas of activity of socionic types

V.V. Gulenko , 
03.05.1989, Kiev.

Published: "Socionics" (newsletter), Kiev - Novosibirsk, 1990, No. 1, p. 7 - 16.

In our society, the socialization of abilities of various types of personality is traditionally ignored. People often do different things. Here is an example from life. When distributing recruits to military units, young men of asthenic physique are sent, as a rule, to the most unskilled types of troops. This is what Professor V.A. Sadovnichy, First Vice-Rector of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, told in an interview with an LG correspondent:

- Our mathematicians turned out to be, as a rule, the same place (in the construction department - VG). You know, it happened that our mathematicians wear glasses. Seeing the young man in glasses, for some reason, the staff of the military enlistment office did not hesitate to make the spectacle a real man (1).

Intuitive types of personality, the category of which often includes these students, are not adapted by their very nature to sensory manual work, which requires a good orientation in space and the ability to manipulate specific objects. Such disregard for intuitive personality types is characteristic of underdeveloped countries with low production cultures.

Another example concerning our time. The cooperative movement in our country does not give the desired effect - market recovery. Every third Muscovite does not approve of cooperatives, according to a telephone survey of thousands of Moscow residents, conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (2). What is the reason for this? Socionic observations show that there are no intuitive co-operators, or there are very few of them, or they do not work according to their strong functions. Therefore, there is little imagination, fantasy, new ideas. Instead of competing new types of goods and services - and intuitive personality types can come up with them - competition of strength and dexterity: the division of spheres of influence, racketeering, forgery, etc. In other words, purely sensory forms of competition dominate.

In the literature, there are usually three components of any activity, cognitive, practical and emotional-communicative (3} Cognitive, following the theory of socionics, should be divided into logical and intuitive components

In accordance with this scheme, other approaches to the analysis of fields of activity are being built. For example, the concept of the four types of mind (4), which distinguishes between the mind conceptual, social, aesthetic and industrial-technical.

Summarizing these approaches, we will single out four major areas of activity (SD) of socionic types:

1. object management SD (corresponds to sensory-logical and logical-sensory types),
2. scientific theoretical SD (corresponds to the intuitive-logical and logical-intuitive types),
3. humanitarian and art SD (corresponds to the intuitive-ethical and ethical-intuitive types),
4. humanitarian social diabetes (corresponds to ethical-sensory and sensory-ethical types).

Most often, we use the classification of professions of EAKlimov, which includes five types of professions, 'man-man', 'man-nature', 'man-technique and' man-art image '(5). It can be put in a logical correspondence to the four above-mentioned fields of activity. To do this, we will conduct several additional logical operations.

Instead of 'man-nature' we introduce the type of professions 'man - a concrete world', reflecting the sensory abilities of the individual. Unlike the actual sign system, for successful work with which intuition and logic are required for mastering and generating artistic images, intuition is required in combination with ethics. It is quite obvious that the type of professions "man - man" corresponds to the ethical pole, and "man - equipment" - to the logical pole of the axis of rationality. Thus, we obtain the following qualification, built on the basis of two mutually orthogonal factors

Service and leisure workers (4)	Administrators and Managers (1)
Cultural and art workers (3)	Scientists and experimenters (2)

We hold the opinion that socionic vocational guidance is based on three main principles.

1. One person cannot be universal. There is an inverse relationship - if he is a good organizer, then he is much less good as a theorist, and vice versa. The developer of a fundamentally new theory, as a rule, is unable to implement it. One cannot be given everything.

2. The choice of the type of activity should be carried out according to the functions of the Ego and ID blocks, the choice of Superego and Superid is noted. It is noticed that younger children feel their vocation correctly (not for a specific profession, but for the type of activity). But when they reach the age when the established behavioral stereotypes in society begin to act - prestige-prestige, etc., their professional choice may change dramatically. Subsequently, as a rule, this error is realized, but most often it is not corrected.

3. Duals can and should work side by side, in the same organization, while the distribution of responsibilities between them is very important, or the first one performs work assigned to the functions of the 'ego' block, then the second should work according to the functions of the Id block. It is necessary to determine who is what, based on the specifics of the activity (ILE – SEI dyad, science – EGO ILE, organizing - EGO SEI).

According to the blocks of Superego and Superid, it is recommended not a profession, but ... a passion, a hobby. This is especially true of the third (role) function, according to which a person often strives to realize himself, forgetting about the first.

Consider the specialization of TIMs in areas of activity (a prototype of the socionic vocational guidance)

1. Objectively management activities (FEL, SLI, LSI, SLE).

P - business area. FEL, SLI - managers operating mainly by economic methods. Engineers and technologists. Business documentation.

L - the scientific field. Data processing, classification of facts, improvement of systems. Inventors and rationalizers, especially FEL due to abstract logic in the Id block.

F - Management Sphere Administrators who are able to organize clear work and maintain discipline. LSI and SLE are especially effective in critical situations, for example - extreme conditions of a long-distance march, fulfillment of the plan at the end of the quarter, etc.Army. Sports associated with martial arts, excitement - especially SLE and FEL.

S - information transfer in a beautiful or convenient form. LSI - architecture, drawings, director, actor, FEL - recipes, culinary. FEL and SLI are teachers who can explain the material well and clearly.

2. Scientific-theoretical activity (ILE, LII, OR, LIE).

I - scientists, proposing fundamentally new ideas, especially ILE (creating new theories of a generalizing nature by synthesizing individual promising ideas) Educators who can unleash a person’s abilities, especially LIE in an intuitive version

L - scientists, analysts, the construction of logically complete classifications and structures. Designers of new devices, experimenters

T - planning and modeling. Sports associated with the calculation or distribution of forces in time, tourism, mountaineering, running (LIE)

P - applied science, the useful use of scientific developments, the operation of technology, refinement and refinement (OR and LIE)

3. Humanitarian and artistic activities (IEE, EII, IEI, EIE)

I - the field of medicine; Doctors who can recognize hidden ailments, make a long-term diagnosis, treat with words and subconscious effects (especially IEE and EII)

R - psychologists who know how to gain confidence in the client. Scientists theorists of the humanities. Teachers who can adjust the atmosphere.

T - historians exploring the development of events in time. Museum workers, restorers, keepers of historical monuments, guides.

E - actors who can cause emotions in people (EIE - historical films, IEE - modern). Artists from tragic to comic genres.

4. Humanitarian and social activities (SEE, ESE, SEE, ESI).

S - fashion designers, designers, designers. Needlework for women and construction work for men. Activities in the field of advertising, especially SEI, promotion of new knowledge, information and referral service

E - cultural work, amateur art (leadership), organization of leisure, celebrations, congratulations and honors, cultural campaigns (especially the ESE). Types of art that require the expression of emotions.

F - organizers of science, heads of creative research teams. Conducting conferences, symposia - LEO and VIC. Procurement activities, industry leadership.

R - critics, moralizers, educators of good manners, doctors, especially ESI. Organizers of antisocial manifestations, election campaigns. Charitable activities, the organization of aid funds (ESI).

Literature.

* - references to the literature in the publication were not given, as the editors wrote, "due to the lack of paper".