La Grece rurale revisitee
Part of : Επιθεώρηση κοινωνικών ερευνών ; No.Special, 1981, pages 11-17
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Rural Greece revisited
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Fifteen years after a thorough survey in a Greek village, can thedistance covered be measured? In real life, this distance seems enormous.Rural Greece is no longer isolated neither in its geographicalsituation, nor its mentalities, nor its human aspects. Has this betteredand deepened our knowledge of the Greek countryside? Or, to putthe question in another way, has this reduced the economic, psychologicaland cultural gap between city and country? At the same timewe must note the numerous melting-points shared by rural andurban Greece: whether a momentary trend or a deep-seated evolution,the «urbanization of the countryside» has made headwayin a country which was neither very urbanized nor very industriali^ed. Finally, beside regional discrepancies, social and economicdisparities in the rural world have been accentuated between thosewho know how to benefit from such an evolution and thosedestroyed by this evolution. Yet, many of these unsettling influenceswere potentially present in the traditional rural society. Turning tohistory — by closely studying local sources and clearly understandingwhat divides Greek rural societies — should allow us to examine thedemographic future of the Hellenic countryside better than manymacro-economic surveys: history undoubtedly remains the key to itsunderstanding and planning.
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