Sensory is one of the socionic functions included in the structure of the sociotype. For the first time, Carl Gustav Jung described sensorics as a socionic function. In socionics "sensoric" is a person, in whose socionic type the sensorics is the leading, strong side.
Translated from Latin, "sensorics" means "perception". Perception is carried out through the senses. In psychology and physiology, "sensory" means "given in sensations." We receive sensations through sight, hearing, smell, balance, touch, sensitivity from muscles, skin and internal organs, etc.
Sensory is one of the four socionic functions. Along with intuition, it is an irrational function. In the typology of K. G. Jung's sensation is called sensation.
A distinctive feature of sensing is that the interaction with the world from the standpoint of this function is built in the material plane. A sensory type person is focused on everything related to sensations that are received through the senses, as well as on physical actions.
The sensory world is the world of specific objects, directly perceived with the help of the senses and amenable to motor-motor impact (these objects, along with the objects of the surrounding world, also include the human body).
The sensoric is a person of matter and everything that is directly or indirectly connected with it.
Characteristic features of sensorics:
- Sensors cannot argue for a long time, think about something, sort out their states, hang in them, be in uncertainty.
- A sensoric is a person of action in the same way as a person of sensations.
- If the sensing person does not see a concrete practical way out of his activity, he quickly loses interest in it.
- Sensors, as a rule, are well oriented in space, rarely lose direction.
If the sensing person has to act in the world of ideas (for example, to plan their actions, set goals and choose ways to achieve them, understand their feelings or the feelings of other people), then the lack of material is made up for by persistence, purposefulness, specificity in setting goals, clarity in understanding their own current desires, a vision of what practical effect his actions will have.
Sensory in socionics, like any other socionic function, can be introverted (white) and extraverted (black).
Introverted sensing is the sensing of internal bodily sensations. Dumas, Gabin, Stirlitz, Hugo belong to the white-sensory types in socionics.
Extraverted sensing is the sensing of action, physical movement, active expansive assimilation of the environment. The black-sensory types in socionics include Zhukov, Maxim Gorky, Dreiser, Napoleon.
