Democratization of education in contemporary greece: Selected aspects


Published: Jan 1, 1977
Jane Lambrini-Dimaki
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Jane Lambrini-Dimaki, University of Athens

Jane Lambiri-Dimaki, who received both her B. Sc. Degree
and her Ph.D. in sociology at the London School of
Economics in 1962, is a Greek sociologist who lives, teaches
and does research in Greece. She has worked as project direc 

tor, first at the Center of Planning and Economic Research
(1962-64) and then at the Social Sciences Center of Athens
until 1967. Since 1975 she is a lecturer («ifigitis») in sociology
at the Law Faculty of the University of Athens, and since
June 1977 she is senior lecturer («entetalmenos») at the same
Faculty. She is also teaching to the School of Social Work of
the Association for the Protection of Minors (EPAA) in
Athens. Her research focuses upon social institutions and factors
of stratification and social change in contemporary Greek
society, mainly, that is, on industrialization and higher education.
She has carried out a number of small sociological projects
on institutions (Ford Foundation award, 1969) and on
forces of social change and on other social problems, and two
major empirical projects both of which have been published:
1. Social Change in a Greek Country Town, Athens, 1965 (in
English), 2. Towards a Greek Sociology of Education, 2 vols,
Athens 1974 (in Greek). She has also published a short introductory
textbook in Greek under the title Sociology and Social
Research, 2nd ed., Athens, 1971. Her publications include
as well a number of articles and papers which appeared in
Greek and foreign journals; four of these have been published
in international readers including volume 268 of the Annals of
the New York Academy of Sciences (1976). She has participated
with written contributions in a number of national
sociological conferences and international ones including the
Strasbourg Conference on the Development of Democratic Institutions
in Europe (April 1976). Jane Lambiri-Dimaki is also
a member of international associations (member of ISA and
ASA and of ISA’s Research Committee on Sociology of
Education) and national organizations. In June 1976 she has
been elected president of the International Social Service,
Greek Branch, and since July 1976 she has been elected
Vice-Convener of Social Welfare in the International Council
of Women. She is associate member of the Board of Directors
of the National Center of Social Research ( October 1974 until
August 1976) and since Spring 1976 member of the Consulting
Committee on population problems at the Center of Planning
and Economic Research. (She has given many public lectures
and talked both in radio and television programmes on Greek
social issues such as the lifevalues of Greek students).