LEADER 05137nam 2200649 450 001 9910458590303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8229-7950-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000001332871 035 $a(OCoLC)884547385 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33250 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266358 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11699953 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266358 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11249053 035 $a(PQKB)10149895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2041620 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2041620 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10902370 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL629367 035 $a(OCoLC)887802799 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001332871 100 $a20140814h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe classification of sex $eAlfred Kinsey and the organization of knowledge /$fDonna J. Drucker 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8229-6303-5 311 $a1-306-98116-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Drucker develops a synthetic argument about how Kinsey's scholarship and training as an entomologist and evolutionary scientist affected his teaching, research, writing, and analysis of human behavior. Places Kinsey at the center of trends in American intellectual and scientific life in the mid-twentieth century. Drucker uses the whole of Kinsey's intellectual life to address questions of data collection and scientific objectivity, and whether it is possible to have research approaches and frameworks for studying human sexuality that could satisfy ever-shifting delineations and measurements of objectivity"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Alfred C. Kinsey's revolutionary studies of human sexual behavior are world-renowned. His meticulous methods of data collection, from comprehensive entomological assemblies to personal sex history interviews, raised the bar for empirical evidence to an entirely new level. In The Classification of Sex, Donna J. Drucker presents an original analysis of Kinsey's scientific career in order to uncover the roots of his research methods. She describes how his enduring interest as an entomologist and biologist in the compilation and organization of mass data sets structured each of his classification projects. As Drucker shows, Kinsey's lifelong mission was to find scientific truth in numbers and through observation-and to record without prejudice in the spirit of a true taxonomist. Kinsey's doctoral work included extensive research of the gall wasp, where he gathered and recorded variations in over six million specimens. His classification and reclassification of Cynips led to the speciation of the genus that remains today. During his graduate training, Kinsey developed a strong interest in evolution and the links between entomological and human behavior studies. In 1920, he joined Indiana University as a professor in zoology, and soon published an introductory text on biology, followed by a coauthored field guide to edible wild plants. In 1938, Kinsey began teaching a noncredit course on marriage, where he openly discussed sexual behavior and espoused equal opportunity for orgasmic satisfaction in marital relationships. Soon after, he began gathering case histories of sexual behavior. As a pioneer in the nascent field of sexology, Kinsey saw that the key to its cogency was grounded in observation combined with the collection and classification of mass data. To support the institutionalization of his work, he cofounded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947. He and his staff eventually conducted over eighteen thousand personal interviews about sexual behavior, and in 1948 he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, to be followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. As Drucker's study shows, Kinsey's scientific rigor and his early use of data recording methods and observational studies were unparalleled in his field. Those practices shaped his entire career and produced a wellspring of new information, whether he was studying gall wasp wings, writing biology textbooks, tracing patterns of evolution, or developing a universal theory of human sexuality"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE. 606 $aScience$xMethodology 606 $aClassification of sciences 606 $aResearch$zUnited States 606 $aSexology$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience$xMethodology. 615 0$aClassification of sciences. 615 0$aResearch 615 0$aSexology 676 $a306.7 700 $aDrucker$b Donna J.$0982976 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458590303321 996 $aThe classification of sex$92243434 997 $aUNINA