Nicos Mouzelis (born in Athens, 1939) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has published extensively in the fields of historical sociology, sociology of organizations, sociology of development and social theory (his last book is Modern and Postmodern Social Theorising: Bridging the Divide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). He is at present working on a forthcoming book Aspects of Spirituality in Late Modernity. See below a more comprehensive biography.

1) DEGREES
- University of Geneva (1957-1962)
Licence es Sciences Commerciales, 1960
Licence es Sociologie, 1962
- London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph. D. in Sociology, 1966

2) EMPLOYMENT
1965-66 Assistant Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leicester
1966-69 Lecturer, University of Leicester
1970 Lecturer in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
1977 Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science
1987 Reader, London School of Economics and Political Science
1990 Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
2002 Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
2005 Honorary Doctorate, University of Crete

3) CURRENT ACTIVITIES
– President of the Scientific Committee of The Academy of Labour
– President of the non-governmental organization PAREMVASSI
– Editor of Civil Society (greek journal)
– Visiting Professor at the University of Crete (department of Sociology) and the University of Athens (department of politics)
– Regular contributor to the greek newspaper VIMA

4) RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sociology of Development, Historical Sociology, Sociological/Social Theory

5) PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS
1. ORGANISATION AND BUREAUCRACY: AN ANALYSIS OF MODERN THEORIES. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967, and Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago. (Translation into Greek, Japanese and Spanish). Second edition 1975 includes a new long introduction assessing recent trends in the literature. Reprinted several times.
2. MODERN GREECE: FACETS OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT. London: Macmillan, 1978. Second edition, December, 1979. Translated into Greek, published by Exantas, 1978.
3. POLITICS IN THE SEMI-PERIPHERY: EARLY PARLIAMENTARISM AND LATE INDUSTRIALISATION IN THE BALKANS AND LATIN AMERICA. London: Macmillan, 1986. (Hardback and paperback). Translated into Greek, published by Themelio, 1986.
4. POST-MARXIST ALTERNATIVES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL ORDERS. London: Macmillan, 1990. Translated into Greek, published by Themelio, 1993.
5. BACK TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIAL ORDERS. London: Macmillan, 1992. Translated into Greek, published by Themelio, 1996.
6. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: WHAT WENT WRONG? DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDIES. London: Routledge, 1995. Translated into Greek, published by Themelio, 2000.
7. MODERN AND POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORISING: BRIDGING THE DIVIDE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

BOOKS IN GREEK
1. NATIONALISM IN LATE DEVELOPMENT. Athens: Themelio, 1994.
2. FOR AN ALTERNATIVE THIRD WAY. Athens: Themelio, 2001.
3. FROM SOCIAL CHANGE TO MODERNIZATION. Athens: Themelio, 2002.
4. THE RELIGIOUS DEBATE. Athens: Themelio, 2003.

ARTICLES
1. “On the Greek Coup”, Contemporary Issues, Vol. 13, No. 51, 1968.
2. “Silverman on Organisation”, Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1969.
3. “On Total Institutions”, Sociology, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1971.
4. “Some Problems in the Sociology of Job Satisfaction”, Prakseologia, No. 44, 1972.
5. “Modernisation, development and the peasant”, Development and Change, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1973.
6. “System and Social Integration: Some Reflections on a Fundamental Distinction”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1974.
7. “Greek and Bulgarian Peasants: Aspects of their Sociopolitical Organisation during the Interwar Period”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1976.
8. “Capitalism and the Development of Agriculture”, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vo. 3, No. 4, 1976.
9. “Capitalism and Dictatorship in Post-War Greece”, New Left Review, Vol. 96, 1976.
10. “The Greek Elections and the Rise of PASOK”, New Left Review, Vol. 108, 1978.
11. “Ideology and Class Politics: A Critique of Ernesto Laclau”, New Left Review, Vol. 112, 1978.
12. “Class and Clientistic Politics: The Case of Greece”, Sociological Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, 1978.
13. “Agrotika: A Comparative Study of Rural Social Structures in the Balkans”, The Greek Review of Social Research, Vol. 32, 1978.
14. “Peasant agriculture, productivity and the laws of capitalist development: A reply to Vergopoulos”, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 6, No 3, 1979.
15. “The Army and Politics in Modern Greece: Review Essay”, Journal of the Greek Diaspora, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1979.
16. “Modernization, under development, uneven development: Prospects for a theory of third world formations”, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1980.
17. “Teleology and uneven development: A reply to Taylor”, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1981.
18. “Reductionism in Marxist Theory”, Telos, Vol. 45, 1980.
19. “Modern Greece: Development or Underdevelopment?”, Monthly Review, 1980.
20. “On the Demise of Oligarchic Parliamentarism in the Semi-Periphery: A Balkan-Latin American Comparison”, Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1983.
21. “Notes on Some Structural Aspects of the Modern Greek State” (in Italian), Sviluppo, 1984.
22. “On the Crisis of Marxist Theory”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 1, 1984.
23. “On the Analysis of Social Stratification in Greece”, Journal of the Greek Diaspora, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1984.
24. “On the Concept of Populism: Populist and Clientistic Modes of Incorporation in Semiperipheral Politics”, Politics and Society, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1985.
25. “Continuitiés et changements en politique grecque: d’ Elefterios Veniselos à Andreas Papandreou”, Les Temps Modernes, 1986.
26. “On the Rise of Postwar Military Dictatorships: Argentina Chile Greece”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1986.
27. “Factory Regimes in Comparative Perspective”, Contemporary Sociology, 1986.
28. “Marxism Versus Post-Marxism”, New Left Review, Vol. 167, 1988.
29. “Sociology of Development: Reflections on the Present Crisis”, Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1988.
30. “Political Transitions in Greece and Argentina: Toward a Reorientation of Marxist Political Theory”, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1989.
31. “Restructuring Structuration Theory”, Sociological Review, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1989.
32. “Financial Strategies and Industrialisation in Modern Greece”, Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 8, 1990.
33. “The Interaction Order and the Micro-Macro Distinction”, Sociological Theory, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1992.
34. “System and Social Integration: Habermas’ View”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 43, No. 2, 1992.
35. “Existing Socialism: Is it Marx’s Fault?”, Sociology Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992.
36. “Evolution and Democracy: Talcott Parsons and the Collapse of the Eastern European Regimes”, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1993.
37. “On Figurational Sociology”, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1993.
38. “The Anatomy of a Failure: Pasok’s Socialist Experiment”, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 1993.
39. “The Balance Sheet of the Left”, New Left Review, Vol. 200, 1993.
40. “Comparing the Durkheimian and Marxist Traditions”, Sociological Review, Vol. 41, No. 3, 1993.
41. “The Poverty of Sociological Theory”, Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1993.
42. “In defence of Grand Historical Sociology”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 1, 1994.
43. “The Left after Communism”, Polity Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1995.
44. “After Post-Modernism: A Reply to Gregor McLennan”, Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 1, 1996.
45. “The Concept of Modernisation: its Relevance for Greece”, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 1996.
46. “Social and System Integration: Lockwood, Habermas, Giddens”, Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1, 1997
47. “In Defence of the Sociological Canon: A reply to David Parker”, Sociological Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, 1997.
48. “Religion, Science and the Environment: A synthetic view”, Sourozh, Vol. 70, 1997.
49. “Beyond the Normative and the Utilitarian”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 49, No. 3, 1998.
50. “Modernity: A non-European Conceptualisation”, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 50, No. 1, 1999.
51. “Post-Parsonian Theory”, Sociological Forum, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1999.
52. “The Subjective-Objective Divide: Against Transcendence”, Sociology, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2000.
53. “Reflexive Modernization and the Third Way: The impasses of Giddens social-democratic politics”, Sociological Review, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2001.
54. “Social Causation: Between Social Constructionism and Critical Realism”, Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, Vol. 17-18, 2007.
55. “The case of spirituality: Against religious fundamentalism and militant atheism”, Bedeutung, No. 2, 2008.
56. “Self And Self-Other Reflexivity: The Apophatic Dimension, European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2010.

ARTICLES IN GREEK
1. “The State in Late Development: historical and comparative perspectives”, Greek Review of Political Science, Vol. 1, 1993.
2. “On the Nature of Sociological Theory”, Review of Administrative Science, Vol. I, No. 3, 1996.
3. “On the Relationship between History and Sociology”, ISTOR, 1999.
4. “Parties’ crisis and civil society as outlet”, Civil Society, Vol. 5, 2000.
5. “Enlightenment and neo-Orthodoxy”, Civil Society, Vol. 7, 2001.
6. “Cosmopolitanism: The Globalisation of Values”, Rethinking Culture, Athens: Ministry of Culture Publications, 2001.
7. “Notes on Modernisation, Globalisation and the Demise of Communism”, Greek Review of Political Science, Vol. 19, 2002.
8. “Individuation and Modernity in the recent work of S. Ramfos”, Diavazo, Vol. 439, 2003.
9. “Civil Society third pole of Globalization”, Civil Society, Vol. 9, 2003.
10. “Civil society and citizen equality in post-war Greece”, Greek Review of Political Science, Vol. 22, 2003 (with G. Pagoulatos).
11. “Bridges between modern and postmodren social theory”, Greek Review of Political Science, Vol. 24, 2004.
12. “Modernity, late development and civil society”, Civil Society, Vol. 11, 2005.
13. “State and Civil Society: From the old to the new paradigm?”, Greek Review of Political Science, Vol. 30, 2007.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1. “Class Structure and Development in Greece” in M.S. Archer and S. Giner (eds), Contemporary Europe: Class, Status, Power. Weidenfeld & Nickolson, 1971 (with M. Attalides).
2. “Bureaucracy” article in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1974 (15.100 words).
3. “The Relevance of the Concept of Class for the Study of Modern Greece” in M. Diner and E. Friedl (eds), Regional Variation in Modern Greece and Cyprus: Towards a Perspective in the Ethnology of Greece. New York: Academy of Sciences, 1976.
4. “Capitalism and the Development of the Greek State” in M. Castells and R. Scase (eds), The State in Western Europe. London: Groom Helm, 1980.
5. “Regime Instability and the State in the Parliamentary Semi-Periphery” in C. Thomas and P. Saravanamuta (eds), State and Instability in the Third World. London: Macmillan, 1989.
6. “The Modern and the Post-modern in Social Thought”, The Charles M. Haar International Sociology Series. Princeton, N.J., 1993.
7. “The State in Late Development: Comparative and Historical Perspectives” in D. Booth (ed.), Rethinking Social Development: Theory, Research and Practice. Longman, 1994.
8. “Greece in the 21st Century: Institutions and political culture” in D. Constas and T.G. Stavrou (eds), Greece Prepares for the 21st Century. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1995.
9. “The Notion of Habitus: Bourdieu’s Theory of Action in Comparative Perspective” in J. Lambiri-Dimaki (ed.), Pierre Bourdieu. Athens: Kardamitsa, 1995.
10. “Modernity, Civil Society and Late Development” in J. Hall (ed.), Civil Society: Theory, History, Comparison. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995.
11. “Strategies of Integration and Socio-cultural Differentiation”, CID Studies, No. 11, Copenhagen, Centre for Social Integration and Differentiation, 1995.
12. “Global Inequalities, Late Development and Democracy” in J.F. Tezanos (ed.), La Democracia Post-Liberal. Madrid: Editorial Sistema, 1996.
13. “Rethinking the Left: Social Democracy, Development and the State”, LSE Series, Department of Sociology, 1997.
14. “Ernest Gellner’s Theory of Nationalism: some definitional and methodological issues” in J. Hall (ed.), The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
15. “Multi-Cultural Europe: Conceptualising Complexity on the Socio-Cultural and educational Levels” in A. Kazamias and M. Spillane (eds), Education and the Structuring of European Space. Athens: Serios Editions, 1998.
16. “Modernity, Late Development and Civil Society” in L. Rudebeck and O. Törnquist with V. Rojas (eds), Democratisation in the Third World. London: Macmillan, 1998.
17. “Religion, Science and the Environment: A Synthetic View” in S. Hobson and L. Mee (eds), The Black Sea Crisis. World Scientific Publishing, 1998.
18. “D. Lockwood” in R. Stones (ed.), Key Sociological Thinkers. London, Macmillan, 1998.
19. “Exploring Post-traditional Orders” in M. O’Brien et al (eds), Theorising Modernity. London: Longman, 1999.
20. “Differentiation and Marginalization in Late Modernity” in I. Goug and G. Olofson (eds), Capitalism and Social Cohesion: Essays on Exclusion and Integration. London: Macmillan, 1999.
21. “Reification: A System-Social Integration Imbalance” in J. Bouzakis (ed.), Historical-Comparative Perspectives: Festschrift in Honour of Andreas Kazamias. Athens: Gutenberg, 2000.
22. “Communitarianism: The Issue of Relativism” in E.W. Lehman (ed.), Autonomy and Order: A Communitarian Anthology. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
23. “Modes of National Identity in the Context of Globalisation” in L. Tsoukalis (ed.), Globalisation and Regionalism: A Double Challenge for Greece. Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Athens, 2001.
24. “Globalisation, Poverty and Environmental Degradation” in D.V. Razis (ed.), The Human Predicament II: Ecological Dynamics and Human Nature. Athens: S&P Advertising, 2003.
25. “Civil Society and Citizenship in post-war Greece” in F. Birtek and Th. Dragona, (eds), Citizenship and the Nation-State in Greece and Turkey. London: Routledge, 2005.
26. “Nationalism: Restructuring Gellner’s Theory” in S. Malesevic and M. Haugaard (eds), Ernest Gellner and the Contemporary Social Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
27. “Between modern and postmodern theorising: The issue of cognitive relativism” in J. Powel and T. Owen (eds), Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.
28. “David Lockwood” in R. Stones (ed.), Key Sociological Thinkers. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
29. “On the December Events” in S. Economides and V. Monastiriotis (eds), The return of street politics? Essays on the December riots in Greece. London: The Hellenic Observatory, LSE, 2009.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN GREEK
1. “Parliamentarism and Party Organisation in Greece” in G. Kassimatis (ed.), 150 years of Greek Parliamentary Life 1844-1994. Athens: Sakoulas, 1995.
2. “The centre-left discourse in the European Union” in S. Dallis (ed.), From Maastricht to Amsterdam. Athens: Sideris, 1997.
3. “Greek Foreign Policy: Need for a Radical Reassessment” in Th. Couloumbis and S. Dallis (eds), Greek Foreign Policy in the Threshold of the 21st Century. Athens: Papazisis, 1997.
4. “The citizen in the 21st century” in J. Nestoros, B. Pesmatzoglou and M. Samatas (eds), Contemporary Currents in the Social Sciences. Athens: Tipothito, 2000.
5. “The idea of Civil Society” in A. Makridimitris (ed.), State and Civil Society. Athens: Metamesonikties Publications, 2004.
6. “Why are reforms failing” in Th. Pelagidis (ed.), Social Reforms in Greece: an assessment of the modernisation process. Athens: Papazisis, 2005.
7. “The notion of modernisation in the social sciences” in L. Vassis (ed.), Tradition and Modernity in 21st century Greece. Athens: Taxideftis, 2006.
8. “State, Society and Market in Early and Late Modernity” in A. Afouksenidis and M. Alexakis (eds), Political Sociology. Athens: Papazisis, 2006.
9. “Civil society and citizenship in early and late modernity” in S. Koniordos (ed.) Social Thinking and Modernity. Athens: Gutenberg, 2009.