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: 19001944.- Sociology as Social Reform: Alexandros Papanastasiou and the Sociologists.- The Sociological Society.- The Sociologists Theoretical Aspirations.- Protosociologists Avrotelis Eleftheropoulos (18691963), Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (19021986)and Evangelos Lembesis (19041968).- 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: 19441974.-From Social Welfare to Sociology: 19451962.- The Emergence of Social Research and Greek Modernization.- The Athens Social Sciences Centre: 19591967.-The National Centre of Social Research: 19681974.- References.- 3 Institutionalization and Re-politicization Amid Modernization and Dependency: 19741990.- 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: 19741990.- 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 19761977 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 Sociologys Interdisciplinary and Multiparadigmatic Shift: 19902000.-Reconstructing Sociological Theory: Nicos Mouzelis.- Interdisciplinarity: Sociologys Identity Already in Doubt?.- Sociology in Public and Virtual Spaces.-Sociology Journals and Research Centres.- Greek TVs Mission Impossible: Disseminating Sociology to a Wider public Public (1).- Multi-paradigmatic Post-Modernism: Veltsos Non-sociology.- Greek Sociologys Steady Growth.- References.- 6 Sociology in Greece After 2000: The Discipline in Face of Crises.- The Crisis in Greece and the Crisis of Sociology?.- Greeces Crises: In Search of the Intermediate Way?.-Greek Sociologys Struggle for a Public Audience.- The Journals Landscape.- The Translations Landscape.-Greek TVs 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.