Department of Sociology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Telephone: (510) 643-6874
Fax: (510) 643-6874
mikehout@berkeley.edu
Mike Hout earned a B.A. in History and Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Indiana University. He taught at the University of Arizona for eight years before moving to Berkeley in 1985. He teaches courses on inequality and data analysis. In his research, Mike uses demographic methods to study social change in inequality, religion, and politics. He and Claude Fischer recently finished a book on twentieth-century social and cultural trends in the United States that exemplifies this approach; Century of Difference will be published by Russell Sage Foundation in Fall 2006. Another book, The Truth about Conservative Christians with Andrew Greeley, will be published in August 2006 by University of Chicago Press. A couple of illustrative papers include "Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition" (Am. Soc. Rev., October 2004), "The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change" (Am. J. of Soc., Sept. 2001) and "How 4 Million Irish Immigrants Came to be 40 Million Irish Americans" (with Josh Goldstein, Am. Soc. Rev., April 1994). Previous books are: Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland (Harvard Univ. Press 1989) and, with five Berkeley colleagues, Inequality by Design (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996). Mike Hout's honors include election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and the American Philosophical Society in 2003. Mike currently chairs the Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography and the Berkeley Population Center.
