Michael Hout

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Michael Hout is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University, University of Arizona, University of Pittsburgh, New York University

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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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According to Wikipedia, Michael Hout is a Professor of Sociology at New York University. His contributions to sociology include using demographic methods to study social change in inequality, religion, and politics. His current work used the General Social Survey to estimate the social standing of occupations introduced into the census classification since 1990. He digitized all occupational information in the GSS and coded it all to the 2010 standard. Other recent projects used the GSS panel to study Americans' changing perceptions of class, religion, and happiness. In 2006, Mike and Claude Fischer published Century of Difference, a book on twentieth-century social and cultural trends in the United States. Other books include Truth about Conservative Christians with Andrew Greeley, Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland, and Inequality by Design

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Maximally Maintained Inequality: Expansion, Reform, and Opportunity in Irish Education, 1921-75. (1993) (858)
Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States (2012) (687)
Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations (2002) (665)
More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s (1988) (546)
What we have learned: RC28's contributions to knowledge about social stratification (2006) (414)
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. (1997) (342)
The democratic class struggle in the United States, 1948-1992 (1995) (275)
Distinguishing the geographic levels and social dimensions of U.S. metropolitan segregation, 1960–2000 (2004) (263)
The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change in the United States1 (2001) (251)
More Shock than Therapy: Market Transition, Employment, and Income in Russia, 1991–19951 (1998) (242)
The Center Doesn't Hold: Church Attendance in the United States, 1940-1984 (1987) (233)
Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in Forty-three Societies (1998) (217)
Educational Stratification in Russia During the Soviet Period (1995) (216)
THE PERSISTENCE OF CLASSES IN POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES (1993) (212)
Status, Autonomy, and Training in Occupational Mobility (1984) (209)
Class Voting in Capitalist Democracies Since World War II: Dealignment, Realignment, or Trendless Fluctuation? (1995) (208)
Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective (2006) (202)
Explaining why more americans have no religious preference: Political backlash and generational succession, 1987-2012 (2014) (197)
The Association between Husbands' and Wives' Occupations in Two-Earner Families (1982) (172)
Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition (2004) (169)
Occupational Mobility of Black Men: 1962-1973 (1984) (144)
Principled Tolerance and the American Mass Public (1989) (143)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
Race and Sex Variations in the Causes of the Expected Attainments of High School Seniors (1975) (136)
How 4.5 Million Irish Immigrants Became 40 Million Irish Americans: Demographic and Subjective Aspects of the Ethnic Composition of White Americans. (1994) (135)
What Church Officials’ Reports Don’t Show: Another Look at Church Attendance Data (1998) (133)
Exchange, Structure, and Symmetry in Occupational Mobility (1985) (130)
Gender and work : a comparative analysis of industrial societies (1986) (121)
Americans' increasing belief in life after death : Religious competition and acculturation (1999) (121)
Making the Grade: Educational Stratification in the United States, 1925-1989 (1993) (111)
Symmetry and hierarchy in social mobility: a methodological analysis of the CASMIN model of class mobility. (1992) (105)
Inequality by Design (2020) (93)
The Truth about Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe (2006) (92)
Welfare states and social mobility: How educational and social policy may affect cross-national differences in the association between occupational origins and destinations (2006) (85)
Social and Demographic Factors in American Political Party Preferences (1974) (79)
Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (2006) (77)
Job loss and unemployment (2011) (77)
Occupational Mobility of Black Men. (1984) (75)
Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education (2011) (64)
5. Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Analyzing how the Association between Two Qualitative Variables Differs among Countries, among Groups, or over Time: A Modified Regression-Type Approach (1998) (63)
A Summary of What We Know about Social Mobility (2015) (63)
Educational mobility in the United States since the 1930s (2011) (58)
Abortion politics in the United States, 1972–1994: From single issue to ideology (1999) (58)
The Truth About Conservative Christians (2006) (57)
Reliability of the core items in the General Social Survey: Estimates from the three-wave panels, 2006-2014 (2016) (56)
Association and Heterogeneity: Structural Models of Similarities and Differences (1987) (52)
Persistence of Classes in Postindustrial Societies (1993) (52)
Following in Father's Footstep: Social Mobility in Ireland. (1989) (51)
Americans’ occupational status reflects the status of both of their parents (2018) (50)
Dimensions of occupational mobility in the Republic of Ireland (1986) (48)
Maximally Maintained Inequality and Essentially Maintained Inequality Crossnational Comparisons (2006) (41)
Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? (2008) (41)
CHANGE IN VOTING TURNOUT, 1952–1972 (1975) (41)
How inequality may affect intergenerational mobility (2004) (37)
Structural determinants of fertility in Latin America: 1800-1970. (1976) (35)
The Cohort Doesn't Hold: Comment on Chaves (1989) (1990) (30)
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States (1998) (29)
The determinants of marital fertility in the united states, 1968–1970: Inferences from a dynamic model (1978) (27)
Secularization by any other name (2003) (26)
Entrepreneurship and immigrant wages in US labor markets: A multi-level approach (2010) (26)
Assessing the effect of economic inequality (2004) (24)
How Class Works in Popular Conception: Most Americans Identify with the Class Their Income, Occupation, and Education Implies for Them (2007) (24)
Two tales of one city: Unequal vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19 by socioeconomic status in Wuhan, China (2021) (23)
Religious Ambivalence, Liminality, and the Increase of No Religious Preference in the United States, 2006–2014 (2017) (23)
Classes, Unions, and the Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1952-92 (1999) (22)
A Cautionary Note On the Use of Two-Stage Least Squares (1977) (22)
Religion and happiness (2012) (21)
Reply to Glenn (1976) (21)
Return on Investment: Educational Choices and Demographic Change in California’s Future (2005) (20)
Do high-stakes tests improve learning? (2012) (20)
Alternative estimates of Mexican American mortality in Texas 1980 (1984) (20)
Intergenerational occupational mobility in GreatBritain and the United States Since 1850: Comment (2013) (20)
Musical Chairs: Patterns of Denominational Change in the United States, 1947-1986 (1988) (20)
The Labor Force and the Great Recession (2012) (20)
Happiness and Lifestyle among Conservative Christians (2006) (20)
Tracking US Social Change Over a Half-Century: The General Social Survey at Fifty (2020) (19)
MAXIMALLY MAINTAINED INEQUALITY REVISITED: IRISH EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2004) (19)
Inequality of educational opportunity in France and the United States (1976) (18)
12 Critical Commentary: Four Perspectives on the End of Class Politics? (1999) (18)
Opportunity and the Minority Middle Class: A Comparison of Blacks in the United States and Catholics in Northern Ireland (1986) (18)
Arms Races: A Test of Two Models (1977) (17)
Does Money Buy Happiness in Unhappy Russia (2005) (17)
Ethnicity, Social Mobility, and Public Policy: Educational progress for African-Americans and Latinos in the United States from the 1950s to the 1990s: the interaction of ancestry and class (2005) (16)
Does Irish education approach the meritocratic ideal - a logistic analysis (1985) (16)
Maximally Maintained Inequality: Educational Stratification in Ireland (1993) (15)
Statistical methods and graphical displays for analyzing how the association between two qualitative variables differs among countries, among groups, or over time: Part II: Some exploratory techniques, simple models, and simple examples (2001) (15)
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion: Demographic Methods for the Sociology of Religion (2003) (15)
Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education. (Panel Report) (2011) (15)
Analyzing Mobility Tables (1983) (14)
Fewer Americans Affiliate with Organized Religions, Belief and Practice Unchanged: (2015) (13)
Curriculum Placement and Educational Stratification in France. (1979) (13)
Inequality at the Margins: The Effects of Welfare, the Minimum Wage, and Tax Credits on Low-Wage Labor (1997) (13)
The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America.Reynolds Farley , Walter R. Allen (1988) (11)
The Role of Question Characteristics in Designing and Evaluating Survey Questions (2020) (10)
Immigration, Race & Political Polarization (2021) (10)
Microaggressions in the United States (2020) (9)
Rationing College Opportunity (2009) (9)
Saint Peter's Leaky Boat: Falling Intergenerational Persistence among U.S.-Born Catholics since 1974 (2016) (9)
Money and Morale (2016) (9)
MONEY AND MORALE: What Growing Inequality Is Doing to Americans' Views of Themselves and Others (2003) (8)
The American Opportunity Study: A New Infrastructure for Monitoring Outcomes, Evaluating Policy, and Advancing Basic Science (2019) (8)
Saving the Bath Water (1986) (8)
Intergenerational class mobility and the convergence thesis: reflections 25 years later. (2010) (7)
O Be Some Other Name (2003) (7)
The inequality-mobility paradox: The lack of correlation between social mobility and equality (2003) (7)
11. Religion and Happiness (2012) (7)
The Organizational Ecology of College Affordability: Research Activity, State Grant Aid Policies, and Student Debt at U.S. Public Universities (2019) (7)
Another Look at the Stratification of Educational Transitions (2005) (7)
The Family in Trouble? Since When? For Whom? (2005) (7)
Maximally Maintained Inequality and Essentially Maintained Inequality (2007) (7)
Equal Opportunity, Natural Inequalities, and Racial Disadvantage: The Bell Curve and Its Critics (1999) (6)
Maximally Maintained Inequality Revisited: Irish Educational Stratification in Comparative Perspective (2007) (6)
Explaining the Rise of Americans With No Religious Preference : Politics and Generations * (2001) (5)
Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility: Change Across Cohorts (2005) (5)
CALIFORNIA'S FISCAL RETURNS ON INVESTMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION* (2012) (5)
Schooling processes and educational outcomes in France (1981) (5)
Politics of Mobility (1995) (5)
Immigration, Race, and Political Polarization (2020) (4)
“Reliability Estimates for GSS Core Items.” (GSS Methodological Report #119) (2012) (4)
The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting, 1948-2004 (2008) (4)
Economic Change and Social Mobility (2006) (4)
California’s Economic Payoff: Investing in College Access and Completion (2012) (4)
Distinguishing the Levels and Dimensions of U . S . Metropolitan Segregation , 1960-2000 by (2002) (4)
America’s Liberal Social Climate and Trends (2021) (4)
Heterogeneous returns to college over the life course (2021) (4)
The Early Returns: School-to-Work Transitions in the United States (1997) (4)
Models for Three-Wave Panel Data (2017) (4)
Otis Dudley Duncan's major contributions to the study of social stratification ☆ (2007) (3)
Getting to the Truths That Matter: Reply to Stolzenberg (2001) (3)
Two Paths to Equality of Educational Opportunity: Sweden and the United States Compared (1995) (3)
Interests, values, and party identification between 1972 and 2006 (2011) (2)
Surname versus self-identification in the analysis of Hispanic data (1983) (2)
Recession, religion, and happiness, 2006-2010 (2012) (2)
Opportunity and the Minority Middle Class: A Comparison of Blacks in the U.S. with Catholics in Northern Ireland (1986) (2)
The political economy of inequality in the “age of extremes” (1996) (2)
Oh, Be Some Other Name: Reply to Marwell and Demerath (2003) (2)
AFFORDING THE DREAM: Student Debt and State Need-Based Grant Aid for Public University Students (2017) (2)
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth@@@Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to The Bell Curve (1999) (2)
Updating a Time-Series of Survey Questions: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in the General Social Survey (2022) (2)
The Time Bind and God's Time (2000) (2)
Age Structure, Unwanted Fertility, and the Association Between Racial Composition and Family Planning Programs: A Comment on Wright (1979) (2)
Commentary on the Letters 1-276 (1999) (2)
American Religion, All or Nothing at All (2017) (2)
The Statistical Analysis of Quasi-Experiments.Christopher H. Achen (1989) (1)
Measuring Higher Education Productivity: Conceptual Framework and Data Needs. (Panel Report) (2012) (1)
Access to Higher Education (2016) (1)
Sociology as a Population Science. By John H. Goldthorpe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. ix+168. $24.99 (paper). (2016) (1)
College Success and Inequality (2015) (1)
The Realignment of U.S. Presidential Voting (2018) (1)
Michael Hout (2014) (1)
The Employment Patterns of Young Adults, 1989–2014 (2018) (1)
American Higher Ed Isn't Doing the Job (2009) (1)
Class Voting in Western Democracies (1995) (1)
Response to Nielsen's Review of Inequality by Design (1998) (1)
Economic Change and Mobility in the Two Parts of Ireland@@@Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland. (1991) (1)
Falling Intergenerational Persistence among since (2016) (0)
The Religion of Conservative Christians (2006) (0)
Review of Causal Inference from Quasi-Experimental Data, by Christopher Achen (1989) (0)
The Race between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 320. $39.95. (2009) (0)
Acknowledgments to referees (1985) (0)
Reply to de Graaf (1985) (0)
A New Genre: Contra-Bell Curve@@@Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth@@@The Assault on Equality (1997) (0)
Narrowing the Income Gap Between Rich and Poor (1996) (0)
Houses Divided: Review of The Hidden Cost of Being African American by Thomas M. Shapiro (2004) (0)
Conservative Christians in American Politics (2006) (0)
Happy Days are Here Again!@@@Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth. (1997) (0)
Labor Markets in the States (2015) (0)
Rejoinder: Understanding the Goodman-Hout Approach to the Analysis of Differences in Association and Some Related Comments (1998) (0)
Stasis and Sorting of Americans’ Abortion Opinions: Political Polarization Added to Religious and Other Differences (2022) (0)
Freedom, Inequality, and Conservative Christianity (2006) (0)
The Experience of Poverty U . S . Poverty in Perspective : (2018) (0)
The Politics of Conservative Christianity in Black and White (2006) (0)
Chapter 2: Inequality by Design (2000) (0)
Reply to DeGraaf (1985) (0)
Measuring the Strength of the Christian Right (1999) (0)
Social Mobility in the Tang Dynasty: The Growing Significance of Imperial Examination and Decline of Aristocratic Family Pedigree, 618-907 CE (2023) (0)
Family planning program activity and patient enrollment rates in the United States, 1969 and 1971 (1977) (0)
Reliability of the GSS Core Items, 2006-2012 (2016) (0)
The Conservative Christian Family and the “Feminist Revolution” (2006) (0)
DIFFERENCES AMONG AMERICANS IN LIVING STANDARDS ACROSS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2002) (0)
Replication data for: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850: Comment (2013) (0)
The Pentecostals Ultimate Conservative Christians (2006) (0)
Bush’s Jobs Deficit (Op-ed article) (2004) (0)
Rob Mare’s Research Trajectory as a Model of Cumulative Science (2023) (0)
Social Distance Models (1983) (0)
Learning about the College Experience: Review Essay (2015) (0)
Grammatical and Stylistic Index (1999) (0)
Table of Matters (1999) (0)
Tests and Inequality (1999) (0)
Cain and Abel: The Pecking Order by Dalton Conley. New York: Pantheon, 2004, 304 Pages (2004) (0)
Review of Linear Panel Analysis, by Ronald Kessler and David Greenberg (1982) (0)
Review of Gender and Work, by Patricia A. Roos (1987) (0)
American Higher Education Isn’t Doing the Job (2009) (0)
Scaled Models of Association (1983) (0)
Independence in Parts of the Table (1983) (0)
A Social Portrait of Conservative Christians (2006) (0)
Statins reduce molecular markers of angiogenesis in patients (2010) (0)
STILES , HOUT and BRADY : California ’ s Fiscal Restuns on Investment in HE 2 CSHE Research (2012) (0)
Alienation Among Divorced and Remarried Catholics in the United States (2000) (0)
Passages of the Vitae Pii, Marci and Veri and of Marcus’ Meditations Compared with the Letters in this Commentary (1999) (0)
Democratic Values and Mass Publics (1991) (0)
Corrections of Typographical Errors, Additions to the Critical Apparatus and New Viewpoints on the Text of the Edition of 1988 (1999) (0)
Hard Data on the Rich and the Super Rich@@@Modeling the Distribution and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth. (1982) (0)
Andrew M. Greeley (1928-2013) (2017) (0)
Latin Rhetorical, Grammatical and Literary Terms (1999) (0)
Using Uniform Association Models: An Example from Delinquency Research (1982) (0)
Counting the Returnees (1993) (0)
Corrections and Additions in the Prolegomena (1999) (0)
Greek Rhetorical, Grammatical and Literary Terms (1999) (0)
Applications of Mobility Tables to Family and Religion (1983) (0)
Conservative Christian Growth: Membership Begins at Home (2006) (0)
Does Money Buy Happiness in Unhappy Russia? - eScholarship (2005) (0)
Conservative Christians in the “Sexual Revolution” (2006) (0)
The Secularization Myth (1989) (0)
Republican Elites, Employer Mobilization, and the Politics of State Fair Employment Practices Legislation in the North, 1945-1964 (2004) (0)
Demographic Methods for the Study of Religion (2003) (0)
The Quality of the Quantity: Information Technology and the Evaluation of Data (1997) (0)
The Gender Gap in Voting Democratic, 1972-2016: Intersections of Gender with Marital Status and Race (2021) (0)
Occupational mobility, US, 1994-2016 (2018) (0)
Biodemography and vital statistics (2014) (0)
Unchurched Believers: Fewer Americans Have a Religion But Religious Beliefs Haven't Changed Much (2009) (0)
Review of Beyond the Color Line, by Reynolds Farley and Walter Allen (1988) (0)
Conservative Christians and Catholics (2006) (0)
Review of The Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips (1999) (0)
Middle Class Inequality (2015) (0)
A Hidden Swing Vote: Evangelicals (Op-ed article) (2004) (0)
Social Facts versus Social Realities in the New Millennium (2011) (0)
Review of The Pecking Order by Dalton Conley (2004) (0)

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