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typology4 CONSTRUCTSPsychological typologyJUNG · PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPESLinguistic typologyCOMRIE · LANGUAGE TYPESArtifact typologyADAMS · ARTIFACT TYPESTypologyROSSI · ARCHITECTURAL THEORY

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Psychology

Sorting people into personality types

In psychology, a typology is a scheme that sorts people into a small set of qualitatively distinct personality types. Jung's Psychological types proposed the best-known example, organizing persons by an introversion–extraversion attitude and the dominant mental functions of thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. The referent is a classification of whole persons into kinds, used to describe temperament and difference, and later popularized in instruments built on Jung's categories. Although it shares the word with artifact and language typology, it classifies people rather than objects or grammars, and it is the oldest cited meaning here.[1]

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An assignment of persons to a finite set of qualitative personality categories
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Operationalized through self-report instruments and clinical judgment that assign individuals to the scheme's categories

Linguistics

Classifying languages by structure

In linguistics, typology is the classification of languages by their structural features (word order, morphological strategy, case marking) and the search for the universals and implicational patterns that constrain how languages can vary. Comrie's Language universals and linguistic typology develops the field around such cross-linguistic comparison of syntax and morphology. The referent is a classification of languages (not speakers) into structural types, pursued to explain what is possible and common across human language. It carries the same name as personality and artifact typology but ranges over grammatical systems.[2]

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A classification of languages by shared structural features and implicational universals
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Built by coding structural features across a genetically and areally balanced language sample and testing implicational universals

Archaeology

Grouping artifacts into defined types

In archaeology, a typology is a system for sorting artifacts into named types on the basis of shared attributes of form, decoration, or manufacture, used to order material in time and space and to compare assemblages. Adams and Adams's Archaeological typology and practical reality examines what such type systems actually do in practice and how the purpose of sorting shapes the types created. The referent is a classification of objects into types serving a stated analytical aim, neither a fixed natural kind nor merely arbitrary. It shares the word with language and personality typology but applies to material culture.[3]

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A system of named artifact types defined by shared attributes
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Constructed by selecting diagnostic attributes and grouping specimens into types whose consistency is checked against the classification's purpose

Architectural theory

the classification of buildings by recurring types that persist through history and guide new design.

In architectural theory, typology refers to the classification of buildings by recurring types that persist through history and guide new design. This meaning comes from Rossi (1982) in The architecture of the city.[4]

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References

  1. Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types (H. G. Baynes, Trans.; revised by R. F. C. Hull; Collected Works Vol. 6). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1921) ISBN 9780691018133
  2. Comrie, B. (1989). Language universals and linguistic typology: Syntax and morphology (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226114330
  3. Adams, W. Y., & Adams, E. W. (1991). Archaeological typology and practical reality: A dialectical approach to artifact classification and sorting. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558207
  4. Rossi, A. (1982). The architecture of the city. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262181013

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