Sociology in Greece: Its History and Development

ISBN-13: 9783031161896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 188 str.

Spiros Gangas; Georgia Lagoumitzi

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

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.

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.

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.

5 Greek Sociology’s Interdisciplinary and Multiparadigmatic 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.

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.

O autorze

Spiros Gangas is Associate Professor of Sociology at Deree – The American College of Greece. His major research focuses on classical and contemporary sociological theory, capability approach and value-theory.

Georgia Lagoumitzi is Full-time Lecturer II in Sociology at Deree – The American College of Greece. Her current research interests include areas like globalization, modern Greek diasporas and collective memory.

Blurb

“Lagoumitzi’s and Gangas’ book is a systematic, well organized account of the history and development of Greek sociology. From references to the founders of the discipline it expands to the work of present sociologists based in Greece or abroad. The authors also refer to organizations related to sociological research on themes like stratification, inequalities, demographic trends, sociocultural orientations and other issues which will interest not only sociologists but also foreign scholars and Greek citizens who want to know more about their country. The text is holistic in the sense that it covers not only authors and research organizations but also broader sociopolitical developments which contributed to the shaping of Greek sociology. The book is by far the best introduction to the subject.”

—Nicos Mouzelis, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics

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.

Spiros Gangas is Associate Professor of Sociology at Deree – The American College of Greece. His major research focuses on classical and contemporary sociological theory, capability approach and value-theory.

Georgia Lagoumitzi is Full-time Lecturer II in Sociology at Deree – The American College of Greece. Her current research interests include areas like globalization, modern Greek diasporas and collective memory.