Sociology in Greece : Its History and Development

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.