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

• Typology (anthropology), division of culture by races
• Typology (archaeology), classification of things according to their characteristics
• Typology (theology), in Christian theology the interpretation of some characters and stories in the Old Testament as allegories foreshadowing the New Testament
• Linguistic typology, study and classification of languages according to their structural features
• Morphological typology, in linguistics, a method of classifying languages
• Typology, in psychology, a model of personality types (see Carl Jung, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram of Personality)

See also

• Type
• Typification

Typology in Anthropology is the division of the human species by races In Archaeology a typology is the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics Typology is a theological doctrine of theory of types and their antitypes found in Scripture. Linguistic Typology is an international Peer-reviewed journal in the field of Linguistic typology, founded in 1997 Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world (see Linguistic typology) that groups languages according to their common morphological structures The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions The Enneagram of Personality —usually known simply as the Enneagram (and usually Enneagram rather than enneagram)—is a particular application of Typification is a process of creating standard ( typical) Social construction based on standard assumptions

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