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

Pretsell, Douglas (Author)

History of Science
Volume: 58
Issue: 3
Pages: 326-349

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275319881014

DOI: 10.1177/0073275319881014

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Social sciences Methodology of science; scientific method Homosexuality Sexology Questionnaires 19th century Germany

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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