Georges Dumézil proposed that ancient Indo-European society followed a tripartite model involving three classes - Priest, Warrior and Peasant.
Figuratively represented is the famous Platonic tripartite model of the soul: the charioteer represents reason, or intellect, the dark horse appetitive passions, and the white horse irascible nature.
William Z. Ripley The Races of Europe (1899) created a tripartite model that was later popularised by Madison Grant.
Effective coordination of air and ground forces was a key feature of the tripartite model.
The term is often used in conjunction with the terms "middle class" and "working class" as part of a tripartite model of social stratification.
In The Anthropology of Music, Merriam proposed a tripartite model for the study of ethnomusicology, centering around the study of "music in culture."
By the early 20th century, Ripley's tripartite Nordic/Alpine/Mediterranean model was well established.
The standard tripartite model placed most of the population of Hitler's Germany in the Alpine category, especially after the Anschluss.
The tripartite model of grammar, technical and modern education was more explicit in the circular which interpreted the Act - circular No. 144.
She was able to integrate the tripartite structural model of classic psychoanalysis with the theory of object relations into a revised Drive Theory.