1974/05/01 by Kyriacos C. Markides · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Cyprus History, Politics, Society #Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies #Island Studies and Pacific Affairs #Sociocultural evolution #Appeal #Ideology #Proposition #Movement (music) #Social movement #Social change #Political science #Sociology #Political economy #Politics #Epistemology #Law #Aesthetics #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1525/ae.1974.1.2.02a00070
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A social movement is an integral part of the total sociocultural environment. Any major transformation of the latter will most probably have a corresponding impact on the former. This proposition is examined through a detailed analysis of the anticolonialist movement of the Greek Cypriots to unite Cyprus with Greece (known as the Enosis movement). It is concluded that a traditionally rooted movement like Enosis cannot maintain its mass appeal if its ideological content remains intransigent and inflexible in its devotion to traditional norms at a time when the underlying sociocultural environment undergoes profound secularizing and modernizing changes.