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About Michael Hout
- Michael Hout (born May 14, 1950) 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 (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, 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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