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] Michael Hout received a BA in Sociology and History from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972, and an MA in 1973 and a PhD in Sociology in 1976 from Indiana University Bloomington.
It expanded on work Michael Hout completed on the interaction between socioeconomic background and higher education in social mobility in the United States and Europe.
[13][14][15][16][17] A different line of work on the demography of American religion and religious institutions documented the role of birth rates in the rise of Evangelical churches and the decline of Mainline ones.
[18] With Claude S. Fischer, Hout has documented American's declining religious affiliation since 1990 and developed an explanation rooted in generational turnover and political polarization.