Editing Socionics (section)

== Purpose ==

Socionics provides a means of predicting the character of relations and degree of business compatibility, information sharing and psychological compatibility of people before their joining in one collective group, i.e. to solve the "inverse task" of [[sociometry]].<ref name="ReferenceC">{{cite web |title=The effective management and staff consulting with the use of the socionics technologies |author1= Bukalov, A.V. |author2=Karpenko, O.B. |author3=Chykyrysova, G.V. |publisher=International Institute of Socionics |url=http://socionic.info/pdf/effective%20management.pdf}}</ref>

According to Aleksandr Bukalov and Betty Lou Leaver, socionics uses Jungian typology, informational model of psyche, and theory of [[Antoni Kępiński#Information metabolism|information metabolism]] for political and sociological analysis.<ref>''Bukalov A. at al.'' Socionics: Review of science. – International Institute of Socionics, Kyiv, 1992</ref><ref name="Betty Lou Leaver">''Betty Lou Leaver'' Oxford, Rebecca TITLE Mentoring in Style: Using Style Information To Enhance Mentoring of Foreign Language Teachers.PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 35p.; In: Mentoring Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty. Issues in Language Program Direction: A Series in Annual Volumes;</ref>

According to G. Fink and B. Mayrhofer, socionics is considered one of the four most popular models of personality (including cybernetic theory Maruyama, five-factor model, [[Big Five personality traits|"Big Five"]] and the [[Myers–Briggs Type Indicator|Myers–Briggs Type Indicator aka MBTI]]), deserving special attention because of its importance in the study of personality.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Fink G. |author2=Mayrhofer W. |title=Cross-cultural competence and management — setting the stage |journal=European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management |year=2009 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=42 |doi=10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026733 |url=http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/h040q1h67200h2n4/fulltext.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206034915/http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/h040q1h67200h2n4/fulltext.html |archive-date=2012-12-06}}</ref>

According to J. Horwood, and A. Maw, socionics is a science developed by {{lang|lt|Augustinavičiūtė|italics=no}} in the 1970s. {{lang|lt|Augustinavičiūtė|italics=no}} and her colleagues worked with Carl Jung's personality typologies to develop personality-based relationship profiles. It was found that the nature and development of interpersonal relationships (both professional and personal) are far from random. Instead, they are based on how well suited each individual's psychological profiles are to one another, allowing {{lang|lt|Augustinavičiūtė|italics=no}} to develop 16 'socionic types' predicting and describing the interpersonal relationships between any combination of Jung's personality types.<ref name="Horwood J. 2012. Pp. 1-6"/>

According to R. Blutner and E. Hochnadel, "socionics is not so much a theory of personalities per se, but much more a theory of type relations providing an analysis of the relationships that arise as a consequence of the interaction of people with different personalities."<ref name=blunter2010 />

Philosopher L. Monastyrsky treats socionics as pre-science. At the same time, L. Monastyrsky himself proposes to pay attention to "the concept of socionic type".<ref name="mon">{{Cite journal|author=Монастырский Л. М.|script-title=ru:МЕСТО И РОЛЬ ЛЖЕНАУКИ В ФОРМИРОВАНИИ СОВРЕМЕННОГО МИРОВОЗЗРЕНИЯ|journal=Успехи современного естествознания|year=2015|issue=1–3|pages=506–510|url=http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/mesto-i-rol-lzhenauki-v-formirovanii-sovremennogo-mirovozzreniya|language=ru|access-date=2018-12-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102101113/http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/mesto-i-rol-lzhenauki-v-formirovanii-sovremennogo-mirovozzreniya|archive-date=2016-01-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Philosopher E. Pletuhina defines socionics as the study about the information interaction of the human psyche with the outside world, between people. She also defines it as the doctrine of psychological types of people and the relationships between them, as well as notes that the particular quality of socionics is that it considers the innate qualities of the human psyche, including the personality type, which cannot be arbitrarily changed without prejudice to the mental and physical health.<ref name="sociosphera.com">''Е. Г. Плетухина'' СОЦИОНИКА КАК ОДИН ИЗ ИНСТРУМЕНТОВ ИНДИВИДУАЛЬНОГО ПОДХОДА В ВОСПИТАНИИ//PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSONALITY, Materials of the II international scientific conference on November 15–16, 2014. – Prague : Vědecko vydavatelské centrum "Sociosféra-CZ". {{ISBN|978-80-87966-723}} http://www.sociosphera.com/files/conference/2014/k-11_15_14.pdf</ref>