EDUCATION

TEACHING

RESEARCH


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Stephen J. McNamee, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Sociology 

Phone:  910-962-3660

FAX:   910-962-3114

mcnamee@uncw.edu

 

                       EDUCATION:                     

                        

Ph.D. Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980

M.A. Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975

A.B. Sociology, Rutgers University, Camden, 1973 magna cum laude


 

                        TEACHING:

A.  Teaching Philosophy

B.  Study Guides

                                                 C.  Teaching Awards and Recognitions

  • UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002
     

  • UNCW Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award, 2000
     

  • UNCW Center For Teaching Excellence Award for Contributions to The UNCW Teaching Environment, 2001
     

  • UNCW Center For Teaching Excellence Award for Contributions to the UNCW Teaching Environment, 1999
     

                                        D.  Courses

 

SOC 105 Introduction to Sociology

SOC 215 Modern Social Problems

SOC 340 Organizations in Modern Society

SOC 360 Social Theory

SOC 366 Social Change
SOC 380 Social Classes

 

       RESEARCH:

                                                      

 

 
Sample Publications

Stephen J. McNamee. The Social Construction of Life Meaning. 2007.  Sociation Today. Fall, Vol. 5 Number 2

Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller, Jr. The Meritocracy Myth. 2004. Lanham, MD:  Rowan and Littlefield, Publishers

Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller Jr. "The Meritocracy Myth" 2004 Sociation Today. Spring, Vol. 2 Number 1

Robert K. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld, and Stephen J. McNamee "The Disposition of Property:  Transfers between the Dead and the Living" 2003.  Pp. 917-925 In The Handbook of Thanatology:  Essays on the Social Study of Death. Clifton D. Bryant (ed.) Thousand Oaks, California:  Sage Publications

Stephen J. McNamee and Gary L. Faulkner. 
 "The
International Exchange Experience and the Social Construction of Meaning". 2001. Journal of Studies in International Education, Volume 5, Number 5, Pp.64-78.

 Robert K. Miller, Jr. and Stephen J. McNamee (eds.) 
Inheritance and Wealth in America. 1999. New York:  Plenum.

 

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