An easy question I guess, but in the documentation of the Type class they only talk of interfaces on the GetInterfaces method.
i.e. typeof(ChildClass).XXX(typeof(Par
It depends on what you need; IsAssignableFrom, perhaps:
bool stringIsObj = typeof(object).IsAssignableFrom(typeof(string));
or IsSubclassOf:
IsSubclassOf
bool stringIsObj = typeof(string).IsSubclassOf(typeof(object));