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Michael Hout | |
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Born | May 14, 1950 |
Awards | Otis Dudley Duncan Award, American Sociological Association Section on Population (2007); Clifford Clogg Memorial Award, Population Association of America 1996; Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences(1997), National Academy of Sciences (2003), and American Philosophical Society (2006) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Pittsburgh (BA, 1972); Indiana University (MA, 1973; PhD in Sociology, 1976) |
Doctoral advisor | Phillips Cutright (chair), Paula M. Hudis and Elton F. Jackson |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Sociology, inequality, social change, demography, and quantitative methods |
Michael Hout (born May 14, 1950) is a Professor of Sociology at New York University.[1] 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 (GSS) to estimate the social standing of occupations introduced into the census classification since 1990. He digitized all occupational information in the GSS (1972–2014) 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,[2] a book on twentieth-century social and cultural trends in the United States. Other books include Truth about Conservative Christians[3] with Andrew Greeley, Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland,[4] and Inequality by Design[5]