On the other hand, Simmel was fond of portraying certain human types in terms of the general category of orientation to the world they embodied. Just as all the contents of the world can be defined in terms of the category of science, or religion, or love, so one can speak of the man of science, the religious man, or the erotic man—individuals whose experience is dominated by one of the forms of orientation.

XREF: Relates to typological frameworks in sociology and character theory, e.g., Weber's ideal types.

XREF: This relates to Simmel's broader typological sociology and characterological frameworks, with modern echoes in personality trait theory.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 157