Bernice A. Pescosolido (born c. 1952) is an American sociologist, currently a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Irsay Institute[1] and Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at Indiana University,[2] and also a published author.
[6] Pescosolido's research agenda addresses how social networks connect individuals to their communities and to institutional structures, providing the "wires" through which people's attitudes and actions are influenced.
This agenda encompasses three basic areas: Health care services, stigma, and suicide research.
In the early 1990s, Pescosolido developed the Network-Episode Model, which was designed to focus on how individuals come to recognize and respond to the onset of health problems, and use health care services.
As a result, she has served on advisory agenda-setting efforts at the NIMH, NCI, NHLBI, NIDRR, OBSSR, and presented at congressional briefings.
Forty years of medical sociology: The state of the art and directions for the future.
The social worlds of higher education: Handbook for teaching in a new century.
Thousand Oaks, Calif: Pine Forge Press.
Handbook of the sociology of health, illness, and healing: A blueprint for the 21st Century.
Opening the black box of segregation: Structures of racial health disparities.
Personal networks: Classic readings and new directions in egocentric analysis.