Michael Hout

Professor of Sociology, Director of Center for Advanced Social Science Research

Education

Ph.D. 1976 (Sociology), Indiana University;

M.A. 1973 (Sociology); B.A. 1972 (Sociology and History), University of Pittsburgh.

Areas of Research/Interest

Inequality; Social Change; Demography; and Quantitative Methods

Published Articles and Chapters:

2017. Hout, Michael. “Religious Ambivalence, Liminality, and the Increase of No Religious Preference in the United States, 2006-2014.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55: 52-63. [link]

2016. Hout, Michael and Orestes P. Hastings. “Reliability of the Core Items in the General Social Survey: Estimates from the Three-wave Panels, 2006–2014.” Sociological Science 3: 971-1002. [link]

2016. Hout, Michael. “Money and Morale: Growing Inequality Affects How Americans View Themselves and Others.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 663: 204-228. [link]

2016. Hout, Michael. “St. Peter’s Leaky Boat: Falling Intergenerational Persistence Among US-Born Catholics Since 1974.” Sociology of Religion 77: 1-17. [link]

Publications