เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	การวิเคราะห์เชิงเปรียบเทียบประเภทวรรณนา	การวิเคราะห์เชิงประเภท
สาขาวิชา	วิธีการภาคสนาม	วิธีการภาคสนาม
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	Late 19th–early 20th century (formalized across disciplines)	Late 19th century (Montelius ~1885); extended broadly through 20th century
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Various (Linnaeus in biology; Franz Boas, Edward Sapir in anthropology/linguistics; Gordon Childe in archaeology)	Oscar Montelius (seriation/typology in archaeology); formalized across disciplines through 19th–20th c. comparative humanities
ประเภท	Comparative qualitative/analytical method	Classificatory / interpretive method
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Comrie, B. (1989). Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226114330	McKern, W. C. (1939). The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an aid to archaeological culture study. American Antiquity, 4(4), 301–313.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	cross-typological comparison, typological comparative method, comparative typology, CTA	typology construction, artifact typology, type analysis, classificatory typology
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	6
สรุป	Comparative typological analysis is a systematic method for classifying phenomena into types and then examining how those types differ, overlap, or share structural features across multiple cases, contexts, or cultures. Widely applied in linguistics, archaeology, law, and the social sciences, it moves beyond single-case typology by placing type systems in dialogue with one another to identify cross-cutting patterns, universals, or culturally specific configurations.	Typological analysis is a systematic method for grouping objects, texts, legal categories, or social phenomena into defined types based on shared attributes. Originating in archaeology and linguistics, it is now widely applied across the humanities and social sciences to impose analytical order on diverse corpora, trace historical change, and enable meaningful comparison across cases or cultures.