Affiliations

• Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
• Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
• Director, Project on the Social Determinants of Autism
  
• Director, Adolescent Health Project
  
• Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
  
• Director, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences
  
• Executive Committee

Research

Peter Bearman is Director of ISERP and the Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, the Cole Professor of Social Science, and Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program. A recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2007, Bearman is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy.

A specialist in network analysis, he co-designed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and has used the data extensively for research on topics including adolescent sexual networks, networks of disease transmission, and genetic influences on same-sex preference. He has also conducted research in historical sociology, including Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk, England, 1540-1640 (Rutgers, 1993). He is the author of Doormen (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Selected Work

• `Handbook of Analytic Sociology. Forthcoming. Hedstrom, Peter and Peter Bearman (eds). Oxford University Press.
• Spaghetti Politics: The Structure of the Italian Political System, 1986-2002. 2008. Parigi, Paolo and Peter S. Bearman. Social Forces.
• Doormen: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. 2005. University of Chicago Press.
• Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk, England: 1540-1640. 1993. Rutgers University Press. ASA Rose Monograph Series.
• "After the promise: the STD consequences of adolescent virginity pledges." 2005. Brückner, Hannah and Peter S. Bearman. Journal of Adolescent Health. No. 36: 271-278.
• "Cloning Headless Frogs and Other Important Matters: Conversation Topics and Network Structure." 2004. Bearman, Peter S. and Paolo Parigi. Social Forces. 83 (2): 535-557.
• "Ambivalence and Pregnancy: The Effects of Attitudes on Adolescent Pregnancy and Contraceptive Use." 2004. Brückner, Hannah, Anne Martin and Peter S. Bearman. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 36 (6): 248-257.
• "Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks." 2004. Bearman, Peter S, James Moody and Katherine Stovel. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 110, N1: 44-91.
• "Suicide and Friendships among American Adolescents." 2004. Bearman, Peter S, and James Moody. American Journal of Public Health. Vol 94, N1: 89-96.
• "Networks and History." 2003. Bearman, Peter S, James Moody and Robert Faris. Complexity. Vol.8, No.1. 61-71.
• "Opposite-Sex Twins and Same-Sex Attraction." 2002. Bearman, Peter S. and Hannah Brückner. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 107, N5: 1179-1205.
• "Class Formation and Localism in an Emerging Bureaucracy: British Bank Workers, 1880-1960." 2001. Savage, Michael, Katherine Stovel, and Peter Bearman. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 25 (2): 284-306.
• "Promising the Future: Virginity Pledges and the Transition to First Intercourse." 2001. Bearman, Peter S. and Hannah Brückner. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 106, N4 859-912.
• "Becoming a Nazi: Models for Narrative Networks." 2000. Bearman, Peter S and Katherine Stovel. Poetics. 27:69-90.
• "Health Care Utilization and Foregone Care Among Adolescents." 1999. Ford, Carol, Peter S. Bearman and James Moody. Journal of the American Medical Association. 282:2227-2236.
• "Blocking the Future: New Solutions for Old Problems in Historical Social Science." 1999. Bearman, Peter, Robert Faris and James Moody. Social Science History. 23:4:501-533.
• "Peer Effects on Adolescent Girls' Sexual Debut and Pregnancy Risk." 1999. Bearman, Peter S. and Hannah Brückner. National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Research Monographs, Washington.
• "Adolescents, Health and School: Early Findings From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." 1998. Bearman, Peter S and Laura Burns. NASSP Bulletin. Vol. 82, Iss. 601.
• "Protecting Adolescents from Harm: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health." 1997. Resnick, Michael D, Peter S. Bearman, and Robert Wm. Blum et al. Journal of the American Medical Association. 9.10:832-843.
• "Generalized Exchange." 1997. Bearman, Peter S. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 102, N5 1383-1415.
• "Who Counts in Collective Action? The Structure and Dynamics of Movement Participation." 1997. Kim, Hyojoung and Peter S. Bearman. American Sociological Review. 62:70-93.
• "New Methods for New Perspectives on Adolescent Sexual Behavior." 1997. Udry, J. Richard and Peter S. Bearman. In Richard Jessor (ed). New Perspectives on Adolescent Sexual Behavior. Cambridge University Press.
• "Ascription into Achievement: Models of Career Systems at Lloyds Bank, 1890-1970." 1996. Stovel, Katherine W, Michael Savage and Peter S. Bearman. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 102, N2 358-399.
• "The Structure of Social Protest: 1961-1983." 1993. Bearman, Peter S. and Kevin D. Everett. Social Networks. 15:171-200.
• "The Structure of Opportunity: Middle-Class Mobility in England 1548-1689." 1993. Bearman, Peter S. and Glenn Deane. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. 98, N1 30-66.
• "Army Unit Solidarity, Group Norms and Desertion: Desertion as Localism in the U.S. Civil War." 1992. Bearman, Peter S. Social Forces. 70:2-91.
• "The Social Structure of Suicide." 1991. Bearman, Peter S. Sociological Forum. 6:3-91.

Selected Invited Presentations

• "Rules, Behaviors and Networks that Influence STD Prevention among Adolescents." 2004. National STD Prevention Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• "Social Networks and Political Activism." 2002. University of Manchester, England.
• "Social Structure of Sexual Behavior." 2002. University of Reading.
• "Keynote Address." 2001. ACAPP, Phoenix, Arizona.
• "PAIRS." 2001. Department of Sociology, SUNY-Albany, Yale University.

See Also

• Research grants undertaken by Peter Bearman
• Seed grant: Sexual Networks of Non-Gay Identified Men Who Have Sex with Men
• Featured publication: Doormen
• Working papers by Peter Bearman

• Peter Bearman's CV
• Letters from the Director
• Press Release: Peter Bearman Receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award to Study Autism Epidemic
• Press Release: After the Promise
• Announcement: ISERP in the News - Virginity Pledges

Centers & Projects

• Adolescent Health Project
• American Institutions Project
• Applied Statistics Center
• Built Environment and Health Project
• Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
• Center for the Decision Sciences
• Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion
• Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality
• Center for Urban Research and Policy
• Center on African American Politics and Society
• Center on Organizational Innovation
• Center on Political Economy and Comparative Institutional Analysis
• Collective Dynamics Group
• Global Health Research Center in Central Asia
• Initiative for Policy Dialogue
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences
• Project on Expertise
• Project on Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race
• Project on Security, Military, and U.S. Society
• Project on the Social Determinants of Autism
• Public Opinion Project

Workshops & Seminars

• 20th Century American Politics and Society
• African American Politics and Society
• American Society and Politics
• Contentious Politics
• CURP Seminar Series
• Ethnic Politics
• Gender and the Global Locations of Liberalism
• Geographic Information Systems
• Human Decision Making
• International Politics
• New Pathways for the Social Sciences
• Political Economy
• Political Psychology
• Politics, Society, Environment, and Development
• Project on Security, the Military and US Society
• Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
• Quantitative Political Science
• Religion and Democracy
• Wealth and Inequality

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