The aim of this cross-sectional study was to answer two central research questions:(i) what are Greek employers' attitudes to employing people with a range of disabilities; and (ii) do employers' attitudes differ according to the type of disability? The study sample comprised 102 local employers with small-sized retail trade and service businesses located in semi-urban areas of Lesvos and Chios, Greek islands in the North Aegean Sea. The results show that employers' attitudes differed depending on the type of disability; most respondents believed that it would be easier for people with diabetes, thalassaemia or renal insufficiency to gain employment than those with schizophrenia, blindness, learning disability or depression.

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The present study examines the state of youth in contemporary Greece to better understand how Greek young people organize their lives in various important life domains, such as living conditions, education and career, employment, relationships and use of leisure time. It also examines their values, social priorities and worries, while assessing their participation in social life and the wider political scene. The empirical findings demonstrate that young people in Greece develop their social capital and their socialization process in the framework of the nuclear family. In contrast, outside the boundaries of the Greek family,young people demonstrate an alienation from community and public institutions.

Η σημερινή υγειονομική κρίση από την πανδημία του Covid-19 είναι η αρχή αλλά και το αποτέλεσμα μιας παράλληλης κοινωνικής και οικονομικής κρίσης. Σε αυτό το δυναμικό πεδίο, η αντιμετώπιση της κρίσης προϋποθέτει κοινωνικούς θεσμούς και κοινωνικά υποκείμενα ανθεκτικά αλλά και ικανά να αντιμετωπίσουν με δημιουργική αλληλεγγύη τις αρνητικές επιδράσεις της πανδημίας και, ειδικότερα, την εκτεταμένη κοινωνική ατροφία (social atrophy) και την κοινωνική ενδόρρηξη (social implosion). H μελέτη του κοινωνικού εαυτού και οι μέθοδοι ανάταξής του από το κοινωνικό τραύμα, που προκύπτει στις συνθήκες της σημερινής πανδημίας του Covid-19, προϋποθέτει την κατανόηση της λειτουργίας του, όχι μόνο στις σημερινές συνθήκες της κρίσης αλλά και σε αυτές της προτέρας κατάστασης στην οποία ο σύγχρονος κοινωνικός εαυτός χαρακτηρίζεται από μία έκρηξη της πυκνότητας και ισχυρής έντασης δικτύων της επικοινωνίας, της οικονομικής ανταλλαγής και της κοινωνικής καθημερινότητας. Το παρόν κείμενο έχει ως στόχο να προσφέρει ένα σχέδιο επαναλαμβανόμενης ταχείας έρευνας για τις καταστάσεις αναστοχασμού, ανάταξης και ανθεκτικότητας του κοινωνικού μας εαυτού σε συνθήκες ισχυρής κοινωνικής απόστασης, αυτοπεριορισμού και αποσύνδεσης από την οικονομία. To κείμενο ολοκληρώνεται με σκέψεις για την ανάγκη σχεδιασμού ενός πρωτόκολλου εφαρμογής και έρευνας δράσης της κλινικής κοινωνιολογίας με θέμα τη διασφάλιση της αντοχής των ατόμων και των κοινωνιών που έχουν υποστεί τις αρνητικές συνέπειες της κοινωνικής ενδόρρηξης λόγω της πανδημίας και κάποιες προτάσεις για μια ατομική και συλλογική στρατηγική.

Studies of xenophobia have focused either on socio-economic context that accentuates xenophobic attitudes or on perceptions of immigrants, namely symbolic and realistic threats as well as on social distance from immigrants. This study examines closely the relationship among various components of xenophobia and their contribution in the formation of particular xenophobic groups. The analysis identified four different xenophobic groups, i.e. a) The distant xenophobic group, b) The core xenophobic group, c) The subtle xenophobic group and d) The ambivalent xenophobic group. The groups' profiles are synthesized through negative, neutral and positive properties of overall attitudes towards immigrants, perceived threats, political xenophobia, social distance, authoritarian attitudes and individual social characteristics. The survey results demonstrate that a multidimensional conceptualization of xenophobia is needed both at the level of objective social condition and of individual and collective perceptions.Keywords: Xenophobic group; Multiple correspondence analysis; Political xenophobia; Extreme right Greece. I N T H I S A R T I C L E , W E P R E S E N T research evidence of a national, public opinion, face-to-face interview survey on xenophobia and host-immigrant relations carried out in both mainland and islander regions of Greece demonstrating the role of the country's economic crisis in shaping people's attitudes towards immigrants and minorities. The present study was designed to articulate a typology of particular population groups of host majority expressing political xenophobia and negative attitudes towards foreigners. During times of major economic distress and social unrest and given the rise of extreme right-wing parties following the last Greek elections, this investigation may be particularly pronounced. examining the antecedents of xenophobic attitudes is to identify subgroups within a host society that exhibit differing levels of xenophobia towards varied immigrant groups (Canetti-Nisim et al. 2006). Data gathered by a Eurobarometer opinion poll survey in 1997 showed a worrying level of racism and xenophobia in Member States, with nearly 33% of those interviewed openly describing themselves as "quite racist" or "very racist". Respondents' feelings of racism were found to be fed by fear of unemployment, personal insecurity, dissatisfaction with their life circumstances and low confidence in the way public authorities worked in their country.Results from both Eurobarometer surveys and the European Social Surveys on the attitudes of majorities towards minorities in the 15 EU Member States over time (these surveys were carried out in 1997, 2000, and 2003) showed that the level of resistance to multicultural society has remained the same in 2003 as it was in 1997. However, there was a significant increase over this period (1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003) in those endorsing the view that multicultural society has reached its limits. Resistance to immigrants and asylum seekers was widely...