Sociology in Greece

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.

• 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.- The1944 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.