Faculty Books
Leslie McCall
Associate Professor
812 Chicago Avenue
Room 305
Phone: (847) 467-1327
l-mccall@northwestern.edu
Office Hours: (Winter 2012)
Thursday 2:00-4:00
Areas of Interest
Social Inequality
Economic Sociology
Political Sociology
Methods/Social Theory
Relevant Link
Main personal web site at the Institute for Policy Research
Biography
McCall received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. Her’s areas of interest include social inequality, economic and political sociology, methods, and social theory.
Her work on rising class inequality among women in the United States, and, more generally, on how racial, educational, and gender inequality variously overlap and conflict with one other, has been published in a number of journals as well as in her book, Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy (Routledge, 2001), which was the first runner-up for the C. Wright Mills Book Award.
Her current research includes (1) an ongoing study of economic inequality among women, (2) an analysis of the impact of corporate restructuring (e.g., downsizing, subcontracting) on rising inequality, and (3) an investigation of the political consequences of rising wage inequality, in terms of awareness of and opposition to inequality, preferences for redistributive policies, and political participation.
McCall also maintains an interest in feminist social theory and methodology, in particular the conceptualization and empirical analysis of multiple dimensions of social relations from a social science perspective. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Demos: A Network of Ideas and Action, where she is a Senior Fellow.
Courses Taught
Soc 201: Social Inequality
Soc 303: Analysis of Social Data
Soc 325: Sociology of Inequality Syllabus
Soc 401-2: Analysis of Social Data
Soc 440: Stratification, Race, and Gender
Books
Complex Inequality: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy
Routledge, 2001
Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011
Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll
Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
