Joint Department of Methodology and Department of Sociology Public Lecture:
The End-Game: how structure and culture shape our final years
Speaker: Dr Corey Abramson (University of Arizona)
Respondent: Dr Sam Friedman (LSE)
Chair: Dr Alasdair Jones (LSE)
Wednesday 3 June 2015, 6.30-8pm
Thai Theatre, New Academic Building
Growing old presents physical problems for everyone. However, when these problems occur and how people confront them are mediated by inequalities that reflect persistent socioeconomic, racial, and gender divides. The End-Game (Harvard University Press 2015) shows how inequality structures social life in old age—and what examining old age can tell us about the mechanisms of inequality more generally.
Corey Abramson is Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, University of Arizona. His research uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to explain how social inequality is reproduced over time. The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years, his book on this topic, is being published by Harvard University Press in 2015
The event is free and open to all, and copies of The End Game will be on sale at a discounted price at the event.
Email: sociology.events@lse.ac.uk
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Event poster [PDF]