University of California, Berkeley

Graduate Student, Sociology

Daily Operations Manager-Center for Urban Ethnography

Thesis Title: “This is How We Live, This is How We Die”:Social Stratification, Aging, and Health in America

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Corey M. Abramson (http://cmabramson.com) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research uses a combination of quantitative, qualitative, and theoretical methods to examine the mechanisms that link social inequality to health. Corey's dissertation is based in three-years of comparative ethnographic research that examines the ways that seniors from different racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic groups manage the demands of the aging body in everyday life. His past projects have examined the relationship between social stratification and human bodies more generally by charting patterns of health care use among the elderly poor, demonstrating the ways adult day care organizations frame and manage dementia patients, and showing how middle-class cage fighters use seemingly peculiar bodily rituals to create a "voluntary community" that reinforces beliefs in notions of American meritocracy. Corey currently manages UC Berkeley’s interdisciplinary Center for Urban Ethnography (CUE) where he works on methodological issues and directs an undergraduate training program in qualitative methods.  He is also the lead instructor in Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) for the UCB Social Research workshops, where he provides methodological training and consulting to faculty, graduate students, and research teams from across the country. Corey's  work has been published in a variety of venues including Qualitative Sociology, The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Social Stratification and Mobility (forthcoming), The Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior (forthcoming), and Las Voces.

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