Article ID: CBB294665092

The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative (2020)

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The sexological research questionnaire, which became a central research tool in twentieth-century sexology, has a methodological-developmental history stretching back into mid-nineteenth century Germany. It was the product of a prolonged, disruptive encounter between sexual scientists constructing sexual case studies along with newly assertive homosexual men supplying self-penned sexual autobiographies. Homosexual autobiographies were intensely interesting to these men of science but lacked the brevity, structure, and discipline of a formal clinical case study. In the closing decades of the century, efforts to harness and regularize this self-penned material resulted in a series of methodological adaptations. By the turn of the century this process had resulted in the first use of a formal sexual research questionnaire.

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Authors & Contributors
Bauer, Heike
Crozier, Ivan
Jana Funke
Linge, Ina
Sala, Roberto
Riley, Dylan
Concepts
Sexology
Homosexuality
Social sciences
Sexuality
Sexual behavior
Methodology of science; scientific method
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Levant and Near East
United States
France
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