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  "Typology" is the study of types. More specifically, it may refer to:

  • Typology (anthropology)
    Typology (anthropology)

    Typology in anthropology is the division of the human species by races. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, anthropologists used a typological model to divide people from different ethnic regions into races, ....
    , division of culture by races
  • Typology (archaeology)
    Typology (archaeology)

    In archaeology a typology is the result of the Categorization of things according to their characteristics. The products of the classification, i.e....
    , classification of things according to their characteristics
  • Typology (theology)
    Typology (theology)

    Typology is a theology doctrine of theory of types and their antitypes found in Scripture. What is referred to as Medieval allegory actually began in the Early Church as a method for synthesizing the seeming discontinuities between the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible ....
    , in Christian theology the interpretation of some characters and stories in the Old Testament as allegories foreshadowing the New Testament
  • Linguistic typology
    Linguistic typology

    Linguistic typology is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity of the world's languages....
    , study and classification of languages according to their structural features
    • Morphological typology
      Morphological typology

      Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures....
      , in linguistics, a method of classifying languages
  • Typology, in psychology, a model of personality types (see Carl Jung
    Carl Jung

    Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology. Jung's approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counterculture movements across the globe....
    , Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
    Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

    The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions....
     and the Enneagram of Personality
    Enneagram of Personality

    The Enneagram of Personality?usually known simply as the Enneagram ?is a particular application of the Fourth Way Enneagram figure. The Enneagram system describes nine distinct personality types and their interrelationships, mapped around an ancient symbol of perpetual motion....
    )
  • Typology (urban planning and architecture)
    Typology (urban planning and architecture)

    Typology is the taxonomic classification of characteristics commonly found in buildings and urban places, according to their association with different categories, such as intensity of development , degrees of formality, and school of thought ....
    , the taxonomic classification of characteristics common to buildings or urban spaces


See also

  • Type
    Type

    Type may refer to:In philosophy:*A Type is a category of being*Type-token distinctionIn mathematics:*Type *Type theory, basis for the study of type systems...
  • Typification
    Typification

    *Typification is a process of creating standard social construction based on standard assumptions.*A keeping of botanical material for standard of reference, specially in a public institution, like Linnean Herbarium in London....