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Google
Ngrams A new service by Google
allows readers to follow the rise and fall of concepts
across 5 million books and 500 years.
When you enter one or several phrases into the Google Books
Ngram Viewer,
it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus
of
books (e.g., “American English”, "British English", "English
Fiction", "German", “Spanish” etc.) over the selected years. You
can refine your search by clicking on various shorter
periods listed
below the graph. Within these shorter periods, you will get
lists
of the actual works examined. Of
course, one has to understand the limitations of this unique offer, and
one has
to be careful in interpreting the graphs. Nevertheless, they can be of
some help
to those who are interested in the historical dimensions of scientific
topics. For
the purpose of illustration, we are providing a few samples in English
to go
with some of our online courses:
1. Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm
Reich, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Alfred Kinsey (English)
2. Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm
Reich, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Alfred Kinsey (German)
3. sexology, sex
therapy, sex education
4.
sex research,
sexual science, sex survey
5. sexual behavior
6.
monogamy,
polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, group
marriage
7. female
prostitution, male prostitution
8. sexual health, sexual
rights
9.
feminism,
women's
movement, women's liberation, women's rights
10.
equal
rights, women's rights, women's movement, feminism
11.
minority
rights, women's rights, children's rights, sexual rights
12.
sexual perversion,
sexual deviation, paraphilia
13. paraphilia,
pedophilia, hebephilia
14.
male sexual
response, female sexual response, premature ejaculation,
female orgasmic
dysfunction
15.
hyposexuality,
hypersexuality, sex
addiction
16.
contraception, birth
control, abortion
17.
male
circumcision, female circumcision, female genital mutilation
18.
transvestism, transsexualism,
intersexuality, transgender
19. gender
dysphoria, gender identity disorder, transgender
20.
Harry
Benjamin, Christine Jorgensen
21.
sexual
minorities, transvestites, sadomasochists, fetishists
22. homosexuals, gay men,
lesbians
23.
homosexuality,
bisexuality
24.
sexual
orientation, sexual preference
25.
gay
liberation, gay rights, gay marriage, homophobia
etc.,
etc., etc. ... |