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SPYROS GANGAS

Spyros Gangas

Social Sciences

BA, Deree – The American College of Greece; PhD, The University of Edinburgh

Spyros Gangas holds a BA in Sociology from Deree and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh. Spyros joined the Deree Sociology Department in 1999 and served as Head of the Department for two consecutive terms until 2017. He has taught sociology at the University of Wales (College of Cardiff), at Panteion University (Athens) and film studies at Kobe College in Japan. His research focuses on classical and contemporary sociological theory, capability approach, value-theory, and film studies. At ACG he developed and taught courses in film studies and cinema and society in the early 2000s and contributed to the design and launching of the BA (Hons) Cinema Studies. Beyond scholarly outputs and regarding cinema he writes film commentaries for the Greek website cinephilia.gr and he has contributed film commentary entries for the journal To Dendro. He is a gratis member on MUBI.  

Selected Publications

Authored Books

  • Gangas, Spiros & Lagoumitzi, Georgia. Sociology in Greece: Its History and Development. Palgrave/Springer., 2022 [ISBN: 978-3-031-16189-6].
  • Gangas, Spiros. Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach. London: Routledge, 2020 [ISBN: 978-1-138-48869-4].
  • Gangas, Spiros. Society and Morality: Values and Modernity in the Sociology and Philosophy of Émile Durkheim, Athens: Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation (Scientific Library Series), 2009 (in Greek).  [ISBN: 978-960-7087-32-4].

Edited Book

  • Gangas, Spiros & Kalfopoulos, Kostas (Eds.). Simmel, Georg. Wandering through Modernity. Sociological, Philosophical and Aesthetic Essays. (Trans. G. Sagriotis & O. Stathatou). Athens: Alexandria Publishers, 2004 [in Greek] [ISBN: 960-221-256-X].

Journal Articles

  • Gangas, Spiros. “From Agency to Capabilities: Sen and Sociological Theory”, Current Sociology, 64(1): 22-40. [London, Thousand Oakes, CA and New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2016]).
  • Gangas, Spiros. “From Alienation to Capability Deprivation: Reconstructing a Sociological Concept”, Social Science Information 53 (1): 54-75, (London, Thousand Oakes, CA and New Delhi: SAGE Publications), 2014
  • Gangas, Spiros. “Japanese Cinema: Visual Style and the Dialectics of Home”, JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters (The University of Tokyo, Aesthetics), Vol. 35: 71-100 [in English], 2010 [ISSN: 0386-2593].
  • Gangas, Spiros. “Social Ethics and Logic: Rethinking Durkheim through Hegel”, Journal of Classical Sociology, 7(3): 315-338 (London, Thousand Oakes, CA and New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2007) [in English] [ISSN: 1468-795X].

Book Chapters

  • Gangas, Spiros. “Cinematic Fragments of Modernity: Film and Society Revisited”, pp. 67-78. In: The Detective of Modernity: Essays on the Work of David Frisby (eds. Georgia Giannakopoulou and Graeme Gilloch) London: Routledge, 2021. [ISBN: 978-0-367-19256-3].
  • Gangas, Spiros. “Recognition, Social Systems and Critical Theory”, pp. 547-565. In: The Handbook of Critical Theory (ed. Michael Thompson), Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. [ISBN: 978-1-137-55800-8]