Civility and citizenship: a study for the island of Lesvos, Greece

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Published: Apr 18, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.9975
Keywords:
Moral self collective self individualist self cultural patterns
Manousos Marangudakis
University of the Aegean
Kostas Rontos
University of the Aegean
Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the condition of the civil and civic perception of the common good, and the attitudes toward the public sphere in the Greek islands of the Northern Aegean. In particular, we wish to examine whether they constitute a region of particular political-cultural characteristics. Based upon the findings of a previous study (Marangudakis, Rontos, and Xenitidou 2013), we examine the moral self in a political framework:.Following Alexander and Smith. Triandis, and Ramfos we examine the quality of specific moral attributes and value preferences vis-a-vis aspects of modern and pre-modern mentality, as well as the valueand mean- orientation of their purposeful action.

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Author Biographies
Manousos Marangudakis, University of the Aegean

Manussos Marangudakis is Associate Professor of Comparative Sociology in the University of the Aegean. Previously he has held posts at Queen’s University in Belfast and the University of Ulster. His work focuses on cultural sociology, civilizational analysis and historical-comparative sociology. He has published on subjects such as the Greek crisis, American fundamentalism, axial civilizations, and the social construction of nature.

Kostas Rontos, University of the Aegean

Kostas Rontos is Professor of Social Demography and Statistics at the Sociology Department of the University of the Aegean. He is the President of the aforementioned Department. He is also Director of the Laboratory “Social Informatics, Statistics and Research Infrastructures”. He used to be a Director at the National Statistical Service of Greece. He has participated in several research projects on subjects as statistical research, regional & demographic analysis and information systems. He has been the author or co-author of publications on subjects as employment, migration, institutional economics, demographic analysis, statistics and information systems. (Corresponding author: Kostas Rontos, University of the Aegean, University Hill, 81100 Mitilini e-mail: k.rontos@soc.aegean.gr)

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