Steve Derné has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1993.
For more information, visit Steve Derné's Curriculum Vitae.
Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday: 1:40pm-3:10pm
Other hours available by appointment
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Publications
Derné, Steve. 2023."Tantra and Technology: Practicing Wonder in Daily Life (Eat, Walk, Love, See)." Motilal Banarasidass
Derné, Steve. 2017. "Sociology of Well-Being. Lessons From India." Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd
Derné, Steve. 2008. "Globalization on the Ground. Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India." Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Derné, Steve. 2000. "Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Film going in India." Greenwood Press
Derné, Steve. 1995. "Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India." SUNY Press
Interests
- Well Being
- Mystic Experiences, Peak Experiences & Supernatural Encounters
- Wonder
- Wander
- Religion
- Emotion
- India
- Himalayan Cultures
- Burma
- Pacific Islands
Classes
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SOCL 240: Sociology of Religion
This course examines the relationship between religion and society and between religion and individual experiences. Topics include theoretical explorations into nature, origins, and functions of religion; interpretations of the place of religion and ritual in social life; analyses of interaction between religion and other institutions of society, like economy, politics and family; examination of religious change, and consideration of the interaction between religion and psyche, religion and socialization, and religion and inequality.
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SOCL 303: Classical Sociological Theory
Students will become familiar with the basic theoretical position and concepts of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Students will develop critical reasoning skills so that they can distinguish between the conflict orientation, functionalist orientation, and the interpretive orientation to social reality.
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SOCL 476: Topic: Religious Experiences
This course may be taken to meet the senior capstone requirement in Sociology. It is an intensive study of a topic in sociology not covered in depth in other courses, or alter-natively, an attempt to integrate two or more paradigms or converging perspectives in the field to be studied. Students are expected to produce a research paper and present findings.