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SOCIAL


Primary concern:
building their sense of personal value, accomplishment, and a security of place with others via interaction with people in a broader sense (through family, group, subculture, mainstream culture, community, nation, world)


Primary focus:
the status, approval, and admirability of theirself and of others in the minds of any number of different groups; "subtle" power structures and politics; knowing what is going on in the world; a contextual intelligence that allows them to see both their efforts and their broader context in the world


Primary ambition:
interacting with people in ways that will build their personal value, their sense of accomplishment, and their security of place with others; to touch base with others to feel safe, alive, and energized; may include pursuit of attention, success, fame, recognition, honor, leadership, appreciation, and the security of being a part of something bigger than themselves


Primary stresses:
being able to adjust to others and be acceptable; others' reactions to them, whether they are being accepted or not; may include intimacy, which is tended to be avoided


:coping methods: (unhealthy)
antisocial behavior, detesting or resenting society at large, displaying poorly developed social skills, fear and distrust of society, resentfulness at having had to change to gain approval causes a stubbornness against doing what is necessary to get along with people, social resentment and avoidance as is skewed by the secondary instinct

1. I read these and kinda feel bad for the people who are so fixated on the approval/disapproval of others. But then maybe they don't see it as necessarily a bad thing, and it does help them with being social warriors.

2. Some of the So description sounds like the Image types, how to differentiate?

3. One of the issues I have with enneagram type 6 descriptions is when half of it describes an So-6 as opposed to straight 6. Grrr. Any idea why the sites/describers keep doing that?