Personality as technology of self

MBTI and English language learning in South Korea

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ID4179911
AutoresJoseph Sung‐yul Park (0000-0003-2903-4813, National University of Singapore, autor de correspondencia), Joseph Sung-Yul Park (English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies , National University of Singapore , AS5, 7 Arts Link , Singapore , 117570 , Singapore)
Año2024
Volumen2024
Número285
Páginas35-54
Fecha de publicación2024-01-29
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2023-0035
OpenAlexW4390987473
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas12

This paper considers how a particular understanding of personality, as manifest in the way discourses about personality types are circulated and employed, may serve as a foundation for rationalizing the logic of human capital and its concomitant inequalities. Focusing on the recent popularity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in South Korea and the way it is adopted in online content offering advice on English language learning, this paper suggests that a conceptualization of personality as simultaneously enduring and inherent, on the one hand, and standardized and technologized, on the other, allows personality testing and personality type to serve as moral technologies of self that conceal the contradictions underlying the promotion of English language learning as a key to developing one's human capital in neoliberal Korean society

Conceptualization · Linguistics · Personality · Personality type · Political science · Popularity · Sociology · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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