Overview
- Employs a cultural sociological framework to provide a comprehensive examination of Greek political culture from medieval to contemporary times
- Traces the social and political developments that led to the 2010 Greek economic crisis
- Weaves theoretical discussion and quantitative and statistical analysis together to present a comprehensive framework to explore the civil conscience of a country
Part of the book series: Cultural Sociology (CULTSOC)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Historical Analysis of the Greek Political Culture
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Keywords
About this book
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. Using a culturalist frame inspired by the Yale Strong Program, Marangudakis argues that the core cultural orientations of Greece have determined its politics—Greek secular culture flows out of the religion of Eastern Orthodoxy with its mysticism, icons, and general “ortherworldly-nesses.” This theoretical discussion, bringing together Eisenstadt, Michael Mann, Banfield, and Taylor, is complemented by an innovative use of survey data, processed by political scientist and statistician Theodore Chadjipadelis. The carefully deployed quantitative data demonstrate that the culture previously described is actually shared by people living in Greece today. In his sweeping conclusion to this thorough cultural analysis, Marangudakis reflectson the prospects of Greek cultural recovery through the construction of a non-populist civil religion.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Greek Crisis and Its Cultural Origins
Book Subtitle: A Study in the Theory of Multiple Modernities
Authors: Manussos Marangudakis
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13589-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13588-1Published: 27 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13591-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13589-8Published: 16 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 460
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies