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  2. Holland Codes - Wikipedia

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    Holland also wrote of his theory that "the choice of a vocation is an expression of personality". [ 14 ] : 6 Furthermore, while Holland suggested that people can be "categorized as one of six types", [ 14 ] : 2 he also argued that "a six-category scheme built on the assumption that there are only six kinds of people in the world is unacceptable ...

  3. John L. Holland - Wikipedia

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    Holland also wrote of his theory that "the choice of a vocation is an expression of personality." [ 9 ] Furthermore, while Holland suggests that people can be "categorized as one of six types," [ 10 ] he also argues that "a six-category scheme built on the assumption that there are only six kinds of people in the world is unacceptable on the ...

  4. Strong Interest Inventory - Wikipedia

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    Before he created the inventory, Strong was the head of the Bureau of Educational Research at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Strong attended a seminar at the Carnegie Institute of Technology where a man by the name of Clarence S. Yoakum introduced the use of questionnaires in differentiating between people of various occupations.

  5. Personality development - Wikipedia

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    The social cognitive theory of personality views personality development in terms of reciprocal interactionism, that is, a perspective that considers the relationship of person-society as an interactive system that defines and molds personal development.

  6. Development theory - Wikipedia

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    Human development theory is a theory which uses ideas from different origins, such as ecology, sustainable development, feminism and welfare economics. It wants to avoid normative politics and is focused on how social capital and instructional capital can be deployed to optimize the overall value of human capital in an economy.

  7. Sociological theory - Wikipedia

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    A sociological theory is a supposition that intends to consider, analyze, and/or explain objects of social reality from a sociological perspective, [1]: 14 drawing connections between individual concepts in order to organize and substantiate sociological knowledge.

  8. Wikipedia : WikiProject Psychology/List of Personality Theories

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    Enneagram of Personality (Primarily motivation/fixation based) - (circumplex); Jung's Psychological types; Ptypes personality types (yes, Dave Kelly is an independent researcher, but he has been referenced in at least one book IIRC, and has been referenced all over the place online - he exists and makes an impact with his work, from my limited perspective, whether it's enough to be put in ...

  9. Psychosociology - Wikipedia

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    Psychosociology or psycho-sociology is the study of problems common to psychology and sociology, particularly the way individual behavior is influenced by the groups the person belongs to. [ 1 ] For example, in the study of criminals , psychology studies the personality of the criminal shaped by the criminal's upbringing.