Journal of the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijic", SASA 2019 Volume 69, Issue 2, Pages: 157-173
https://doi.org/10.2298/IJGI1902157D
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Methodology of typological classification in the study of rural settlements in Serbia
Drobnjaković Marija (Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić” SASA, Belgrade, Serbia)
The typology of rural settlements is an actual issue that has been drawing
the attention of Serbian scholars since the early 1900s, and which is slowly
finding its place in practice and in creating the politics and strategies of
rural development. The scientific approach and methods of conducting a
typology have been significantly changed since the period when a distinction
was made among rural settlements in Serbia for the first time. In this
paper, the author chronologically and thematically guides us through this
issue by giving an overview of the rural typologies in Serbian scholar
literature, placing them in the recent rural studies in Serbia, emphasizing
and following the evolution of the typological classification of rural
settlements. The author starts with observations where the typology is
treated as a method, and then develops an approach to typology as a
scientific discipline and, in the end, as a tool for achieving adequate
research goal and conclusions. This evolution path and thematic approach of
rural typology are in the focus of the paper.
Keywords: typology, settlements, rural geography, Serbia
Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 47007