This original analysis of modern Greece’s political culture attempts to present a “total social fact”—a coherent and complex representation of Greek socio-political culture—to identify the cultural causes of Greece’s recent disastrous economic crisis.
Manussos Marangudakis is Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology at the University of the Aegean, Greece. Theodore Chadjipadelis is Professor of Applied Statistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Part 1. An Historical Analysis of the Greek Political Culture.-Chapter 1. An Analytic Model of Culture and Power.-Chapter 2. The Greek Self in Social Analysis.-Chapter 3. Clientelistic Social Structures and Cultural Orientations.-Chapter 4. Religion and Collective Representations of Communitas.-Chapter 5. Civil Religions of a Secular Communitas .-Chapter 6. The Metapolitefsis Civil Religion (1974–1989).-Chapter 7. The Discourses of the Second Metapolitefsis and of the Deep Crisis (1989–2015).-Part 2. The Symbolic Structure of the Greek Public Sphere .-Chapter 8. Data and Methods.-Chapter 9. Constitutive Goods.-Chapter 10. Internalized Code Orientations.-Chapter 11. The Patterned Orders of Ethics.-Chapter 12. The Ethics of the Collectivist Self and Conclusions of Part II.-Part 3. The Formation of the Greek Political Self.-Chapter 13. Analysis of the ‘Democratic Self ’.-Chapter 14. Analysis of the ‘Democratic Relations’.-Chapter 15. Civil-liberal and Populist Collectivist Democratic Institutions.-Chapter 16. The Semantic Map of the Greek Political Culture and Conclusions of Part III.-Chapter 18. Conclusions: Greek Political Culture and the Theory of Multiple Modernities.