2025 Events and News
The Computational Ethnography Lab page page and code repository is live.
Accepted position as co-director of Center for Computational Insights on Inequality and Society (CIISR) at Rice.
Selected Talks
2025: Abramson, Corey M.,Turner, K.Δ, Arteaga, I.Δ, Hernández de Jesús, A.Δ, Ginn, B.Δ, Nian, Y.Δ, Dohan, D. “Pragmatic Sensemaking: Semantic Maps of Dementia Narratives.” ARS’25: Tenth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis-- Networks in culture, culture in networks. Naples, Italy.
2025: "Data Needs for Measuring the Care Economy." National Academy of Medicine. Committee on a Data Infrastructure for Measuring the Care Economy: Consensus Study, Committee Meeting 2. Washington, D.C.
2025: Abramson, Corey M., Turner, K.Δ, Arteaga, I.Δ, Hernández de Jesús, A.Δ, Ginn, B.Δ, Nian, Y.Δ, Dohan, D. “Pragmatic Sensemaking: Mapping the Cultural Work of Living with Dementia.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting — Computational Approaches to Culture and Cognition (sponsored by the Section on Social Psychology). Chicago IL
2025: “On the Edge(case): Leveraging Computation to Identify Alternatives and Minimize Error in Large-Scale Qualitative Research.” Center for Computational Insights on Inequality and Society at Rice (CIISR). Houston, TX.
Interview
"Pain and American Life." The Russell Sage Foundation. RSF Journal Contributors Discuss Their Findings from American Voices Project Interviews.
Methods Workshops
2025: Visualizing Text Data in Python (STaRT)
2025: Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis-with automations and AI (Code Horizons)
Selected Papers
Abramson, Corey M., Zhoufan LiΔ, Tara PrendergastΔ, “Qualitative Research in an Era of AI: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Analysis, Workflow, and Computation”. (preprint: link)
Arteaga, I.Δ, Hernández de Jesús, A.Δ, Ginn, B.Δ, Abramson, C., & Dohan, D. 2025. “Understanding how social context shapes decisions to seek institutional care: A qualitative study of experiences of progressive cognitive decline among Latinx families.” The Gerontologist. gnaf207 (link)
Farber, Orly N, Corey M. Abramson and Amanda Reich. 2025. “Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Qualitative Surgical Research.” Annals of Surgery Open. 6(2): e577. June 2025.(link)
Abramson, Corey M., Tara PrendergastΔ, Zhoufan LiΔ, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski. 2024 “Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States.” 2024. the Russell Sage Foundation Journal, Special Issue: Building an Open Qualitative Social Science (Editors: Edin, Fields, Grusky, Leskovec, Mattingly, Olson, Varner). 10(5):34 – 65. September. (link)
2024 Events
August: American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (Montreal, Québec, Canada: August 9 - 13)
Abramson, Corey M., Zhoufan LiΔ Tara Prendergast, “Qualitative Sociology in a Computational Era: Classic Issues, Emerging Trends, and New Possibilities.” Computational and Mathematical Approaches to Qualitative and Quantitative Data (Co-sponsored by Sections on Mathematical Sociology and Methodology).
Abramson, Corey M., Presider: “American Sociological Association, Theory Section: Culture and Methods Roundtable.”
2024: Dohan, Daniel, Corey Abramson (senior). “Simulated Interviews, Real Results: How Standardized Patients Can Help Train Qualitative Health Researchers.” Teaching and Learning Symposium
2023 EVENTS
November
New Trends in Mixed-Methods Research, American Sociological Association, (Online: November 30, 4-5:30pm EST)
May
Qualitative Analysis workshop, Code Horizons (Online: May 22-25)
June
International Sociological Association World Congress (Melbourne, Australlia: June 25 - July 1)
Abramson, Corey and Martín Sánchez-Jankowski. “Abramson, Corey. Prendergast, Tara., Zhoufan Li , Martín Sánchez-Jankowski. “Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain” RC28 (Social Stratification and Mobility). International Sociological Association. Melbourne, Australia.
Dohan, Daniel, Corey M. Abramson, et al. “Aging and Migration: Structural, Institutional, and Cultural Dynamics”
Dohan, Daniel, Corey M. Abramson, et al. “Comparative Ethnography to Understand Experiences of Aging and Cognitive Decline in Diverse US Communities"
2022 EVENTS
American Sociological Association Conference (August 5 - 9)
“Introduction to Machine Learning for Qualitative Research”
(with Zhuofan Li and UCSF Medical Cultures Lab), Research and Policy Workshop, Los Angeles, CA
"The Temporal Structure of Capitals: Lessons from the End of Life " (with Zhuofan Li and Dan Dohan), Sociology of Culture Panel "Action in Unsettled Times"
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