This Palgrave Pivot provides a concise history of the development of sociology in Greece. It provides a compelling narrative of the discipline’s embryonic state, its promising beginnings that aligned with its contact with the then robust French and German accomplishments in sociology. It continues with sociology’s entanglement with modern Greece’s turbulent history during the Civil War and the junta years. It charts Greece's gradual recovery during the mid-1970s, which led to sociology’s institutionalization. Yet such institutional boom was not free of politicization processes, many of which proved residual and resilient, stemming from the dictatorship years, as well as from Greece’s dependency during its process of modernization. This book completes this historical account by reconsidering sociology’s gradual embrace of a multi-paradigmatic orientation, its opportunities in light of the burgeoning Greek EU membership and extroversion. It concludes with charting sociology’s position in the 21st century, facing challenges like the Great Recession and its impact in Greece as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author(s): Spiros Gangas, Georgia Lagoumitzi
Series: Sociology Transformed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 204
City: Cham
Preface
Chronology of Events in Modern Greek Political History
About the Book
Praise for Sociology in Greece
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: An Incubation Era: 1900–1944
Sociology as Social Reform: Alexandros Papanastasiou and ‘the Sociologists’
The Sociological Society
The Sociologists’ Theoretical Aspirations
‘Protosociologists’ Avrotelis Eleftheropoulos (1869–1963), Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (1902–1986) and Evangelos Lembesis (1904–1968)
Avrotelis Eleftheropoulos: Extolling Individualism
The Heidelberg Circle and Kanellopoulos’ Idea of Sociology
Evangelos Lembesis: Sociologist of ‘Ressentiment’
References
Chapter 2: From Academic Uncertainty to the Birth of Empirical Research: 1944–1974
From Social Welfare to Sociology: 1945–1962
The Emergence of Social Research and Greek Modernization
The Athens Social Sciences Centre: 1959–1967
The National Centre of Social Research: 1968–1974
References
Chapter 3: Institutionalization and Re-politicization Amid Modernization and Dependency: 1974–1990
The Debate on the Greek Social Formation After 1974: The Turn to Dependency and Underdevelopment
International Capitalism as the Decisive Element in Underdevelopment: Vergopoulos and Poulantzas
Vassilis Filias: Social Classes in Underdevelopment
Constantinos Tsoukalas: Periphery and Underdevelopment—From Class Structure to Class Relations
Nicos Mouzelis and the Capitalist Mode of Production as an Enclave Form
Institutional Developments: 1974–1990
References
Chapter 4: Boundary Challenges from Abroad and from Neighbouring Disciplines
‘Sociology in Greece’: Prolegomena on Re-classification Issues
Cornelius Castoriadis: Sociological Contribution and Legacy in Greece
The 1944 Writings
The Imaginary Institution of Society (1975)
Influence and Presence in Greece
Nicos Poulantzas: Sociological Contribution and Legacy in Greece
The ‘Miliband-Poulantzas’ Debate
The 1966 ‘Class and the State’ Lectures/Seminars and the 1976–1977 Lectures at Panteion University
The ‘Poulantzas-Castoriadis’ Polemic
Sociological Theory Input from Neighbouring Disciplines and Scholars
Panagiotis Kondylis
Kondylis’ Sociologically Informed and Incomplete The Political and Man
Kondylis’ Sociological Diagnostics
The Kosmas Psychopedis Axiologika Interdisciplinary Group
References
Chapter 5: Greek Sociology’s Interdisciplinary and Multi-paradigmatic Shift: 1990–2000
Reconstructing Sociological Theory: Nicos Mouzelis
Interdisciplinarity: Sociology’s Identity Already in Doubt?
Sociology in Public and Virtual Spaces
Sociology Journals and Research Centres
Greek TV’s Mission Impossible: Disseminating Sociology to a Wider public Public (1)
Multi-paradigmatic Post-Modernism: Veltsos’ Non-sociology
Greek Sociology’s Steady Growth
References
Chapter 6: Sociology in Greece After 2000: The Discipline in Face of Crises
The Crisis in Greece and the Crisis of Sociology?
Greece’s Crises: In Search of the ‘Intermediate’ Way?
Greek Sociology’s Struggle for a Public Audience
The Journals Landscape
The Translations Landscape
Greek TV’s Mission Impossible: Disseminating Sociology to a Wider Public (2)
Recent Developments and Mouzelis’ and Tsoukalas’ Latest Works
Mouzelis’ Late Works
Tsoukalas’ Recent Diagnostic Sociology
The Sociology of Sociology in Greece: The Work of Lambiri-Dimaki
Further International Reach
The ‘Hellenic Sociological Society’
The Current Profile of Sociology Departments in Greece
References
Conclusion
Index
