This paper describes the experiences of a sociologist as a mitigation expert during the "typical" first degree murder case, from indictment through the penalty phase of the trial. The author, who has worked in death penalty cases (capital murder) since 1988, has served as a mitigation expert in over 40 such cases. Topics covered include: working with a death penalty mitigation team and what to ...

Alvin W. Gouldner (1920--1980) was a prolific sociologist of the post-World War II era who spent the early part of his career (the 1950s) in the field of industrial sociology. A case study of Gouldner's early life and career is useful insofar as it intertwines with the development of industrial sociology as a distinct subfield within sociology. Through this analysis we are also better able to u...

The interest of the sociologist is primarily theoretical. That is he is interested in understanding for its own sake. He may be aware of or even concerned with the practical applicability and consequences of his findings, but at that point, he leaves the sociological frames of reference as such and moves into realms of values, beliefs and ideas that he shares with other men who are not sociolog...

ABSTRACT The diffusion and appropriation of Pierre Bourdieu’s work in Brazil has been consolidated as an object study the last two decades within Social Sciences. Therefore, this article joins line analysis, with scope limited to Brazilian researchers who acted disseminators ideas between 1960s 1990s, from direct indirect contact French sociologist. To understand role these then young dissemina...

Historical corpora are important resources for different areas. Philology, Human Language Technology, Literary Studies, History, and Lexicography are some that benefit from them. However, compiling historical corpora is different from compiling contemporary corpora. Corpus designers have to deal with several characteristics inherent in historical texts, such as: absence of a spelling standard, ...

The English cognate object (CO) construction like laugh a nervous laugh raises intriguing analytic and empirical questions. They include (a) what kind of verb licenses the CO, (b) what is the grammatical status of the CO (including its argumenthood), and (c) what are the semantic/pragmatic contributions of the construction? In answering these questions and to see real usages of the construction...