Corey Abramson

Corey Abramson

Associate Professor, Sociology
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Corey M. Abramson is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Arizona who studies the connections between inequality, health and culture over the life course. His most recent projects have been supported by funding from NIH and PCORI.  The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years, Abramson’s comparative ethnography on aging and inequality, was published by Harvard University Press. The End Game received the outstanding Publication Award by the American Sociological Association Section (ASA) on Aging and the Life Course, was featured in national media outlets including The New York Times and The Atlantic, and received a Korean translation. Prior projects have examined topics including how education is associated with perceptions of racial discrimination in healthcare how “adult day care” organizations maintain and justify control over older adults with dementia,  the logics and decision-making styles of terminal cancer patients,  and why middle-class cage-fighters participated in an activity that carried both physical risk and social stigma. His funded methodological works include interdisciplinary collaborations and younger scholars, and have been published in venues including SociusSociological MethodologyHealth AffairsEthnographyBMJ Open, and Beyond the Case (Oxford University Press, co-edited with Neil Gong). Abramsons work in methodology focuses on: (1) integrating computational techniques with field observations to improve the scalability, transparency, and replicability of large multi-site projects with qualitative data and (2) articulating how methodological pluralism benefits social inquiry in sociology and health policy.