typology
(noun)
The systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics.
Examples of typology in the following topics:
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Strain Theory: How Social Values Produce Deviance
- What makes Merton's typology so fascinating is that people can turn to deviance in the pursuit of widely accepted social values and goals.
- A typology is a classification scheme designed to facilitate understanding.
- In this case, Merton was proposing a typology of deviance based upon two criteria: (1) a person's motivations or his adherence to cultural goals; (2) a person's belief in how to attain his goals.
- What makes Merton's typology so fascinating is that people can turn to deviance in the pursuit of widely accepted social values and goals.
- Apply Merton's typology of deviance to the real world and give examples for each type
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Sociological Theories of Deviance
- Merton's typology is fascinating because it suggests that people can turn to deviance in the pursuit of widely accepted social values and goals.
- The first is the social strain typology developed by American sociologist Robert K.
- Merton proposed a typology of deviant behavior, a classification scheme designed to facilitate understanding.
- Merton typology of deviance was based on two criteria: (1) a person's motivations or adherence to cultural goals; (2) a person's belief in how to attain her goals.
- Merton's typology is fascinating because it suggests that people can turn to deviance in the pursuit of widely accepted social values and goals.
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Cult
- While most scholars no longer refer to any new religious movements as cults, some sociologists still favor retaining the word as it was used in church-sect typologies.
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Definitions of Religion
- This introduces one of the most significant criticisms of this definition - the typology can include things that are not traditionally understood to be religious (like cars or toys).
- As is the case with the sacred/profane typology, this definition is also often critiqued for being broad and overly encompassing.
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Theories of Deviance
- Merton, in his discussion of deviance, proposed a typology of deviant behavior.
- A typology is a classification scheme designed to facilitate understanding.
- In this case, Merton was proposing a typology of deviance based upon two criteria: (1) a person's motivations or her adherence to cultural goals; (2) a person's belief in how to attain her goals.
- What makes Merton's typology so fascinating is that people can turn to deviance in the pursuit of widely accepted social values and goals.
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Team Roles
- The consultant Meredith Belbin studied high-performing teams and devised a typology based on how members contributed to the group's success.
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Introduction: Multiple relations among actors
- Summarizing the information about multiple kinds of ties among actors as a single qualitative typology is discussed in the section on "role algebra."
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Political Ideology
- In a 2005 study, the Pew Research Center identified nine typological groups.
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Combining multiple relations
- Figure 16.5 shows the resulting "typology" of kinds of relations among the actors, which has been generated as a multi-valued nominal index.
- Combining multiple relations in this way yields a qualitative typology of the kinds of relations that exist among actors.
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Romanesque Sculpture: Mary as the Throne of Wisdom
- The icon additionally possesses emblematic verbal components: the Virgin as the Throne of Wisdom is a trope of Damiani or Guibert de Nogent, based on their typological interpretation of the passage in the Books of Kings that describes the throne of Solomon (I Kings 10: 18–20, repeated at II Chronicles 9: 17–19).