2026 Michael Hout: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	54	2089	1897	1005	901	211	20891

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael Hout is affiliated with New York University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. They have a substantial publication record with a focus on sociology and political science, as well as related subfields including health, political science and international relations, gender studies, and clinical psychology.

Their research addresses several key topics including:

Intergenerational and educational inequality studies
Health disparities and outcomes
Electoral systems and political participation
Gender, labor, and family dynamics
Urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies
Religion, spirituality, and psychology
Religion, society, and development

Michael Hout's recent papers illustrate the breadth of their research interests. Notable publications include:

"Tracking US Social Change Over a Half-Century: The General Social Survey at Fifty" (2020), published in Annual Review of Sociology
"Two tales of one city: Unequal vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19 by socioeconomic status in Wuhan, China" (2021), published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
"Heterogeneous returns to college over the life course" (2021), published in Science Advances
"Immigration, Race & Political Polarization" (2021), published in Daedalus
"Stasis and Sorting of Americans' Abortion Opinions: Political Polarization Added to Religious and Other Differences" (2022), published in Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

Frequent publication venues for Hout include:

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Science Advances
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
Annual Review of Sociology

Collaboration has played an important role in Hout's work. Frequent co-authors include Paula England, Fangqi Wen, Erik Wang, David B. Grusky, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld. These partnerships have contributed to a consistent output of research in the fields mentioned above.

Recognition of Michael Hout's contributions includes several awards and fellowships: they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2018, elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003, became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997, and were a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

Maximally Maintained Inequality: Expansion, Reform, and Opportunity in Irish Education, 1921-75.

Adrian E. Raftery;Michael Hout

1727
Citations
Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States

Michael Hout

1335
Citations
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth

Claude S. Fischer;Michael Hout;Martín Sánchez Jankowski;Samuel R. Lucas

1234
Citations
Inequality by Design

Claude S. Fischer;Michael Hout;Martín Sánchez Jankowski

1201
Citations
Self-employment, Family background, and Race

Michael Hout;Harvey S Rosen

1193
Citations
Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and Generations

Michael Hout;Claude S. Fischer

1093
Citations
More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American Occupational Structure in the 1980s

Michael Hout

977
Citations
What we have learned: RC28's contributions to knowledge about social stratification

Michael Hout;Thomas A. DiPrete

706
Citations
Century of Difference : How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years

Claude S. Fischer;Michael Hout

547
Citations
THE PERSISTENCE OF CLASSES IN POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES:

Mike Hout;Clem Brooks;Jeff Manza

450
Citations
The democratic class struggle in the United States, 1948-1992

Michael Hout;Clem Brooks;Jeff Manza

433
Citations
Status, Autonomy, and Training in Occupational Mobility

Michael Hout

420
Citations
More shock than therapy : Market transition, employment, and income in Russia, 1991-1995

Theodore P. Gerber;Michael Hout

414
Citations
Explaining why more americans have no religious preference: Political backlash and generational succession, 1987-2012

Michael Hout;Claude S. Fischer

413
Citations
Distinguishing the geographic levels and social dimensions of U.S. metropolitan segregation, 1960–2000

Claude S. Fischer;Gretchen Stockmayer;Jon Stiles;Michael Hout

407
Citations
Class Voting in Capitalist Democracies Since World War II: Dealignment, Realignment, or Trendless Fluctuation?

Jeff Manza;Michael Hout;Clem Brooks

388
Citations
The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change in the United States

Michael Hout;Andrew Greeley;Melissa J. Wilde

384
Citations
Educational Stratification in Russia During the Soviet Period

Theodore P. Gerber;Michael Hout

367
Citations
Intergenerational Social Mobility: The United States in Comparative Perspective

Emily Beller;Michael Hout

347
Citations
The Center Doesn't Hold: Church Attendance in the United States, 1940-1984

Michael Hout;Andrew M. Greeley

318
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew M. Greeley University of Chicago

Claude S. Fischer University of California, Berkeley

Jeff Manza New York University

Robert J. Birgeneau Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

David Knoke University of Minnesota

Robert M. Hauser University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jeffery L. Dangl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Daniel L. Hartl Harvard University

Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Bernie Devlin University of Pittsburgh

External Links

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