Social and Cultural Factors of the Economic Crisis in Greece

This article aims to analyse social and cultural factors of the economic crisis in Greece. For the purposes of assessing their impact on the crisis, there were used statistical data describing the Greek society before and during the crisis, as well as results of surveys and three categorised interviews conducted in 2013 among Polish economic migrants living in Athens. The first part of this paper provides the analysis of selected macroeconomic categories showing the scale of the crisis and their influence on shaping the social capital in Greece particularly with regard to the demography, the social structure and the labour market. The second part presents the Greeks’ cultural characteristics contained in classical typologies of cultures and their impact on the crisis based on the perception of the Poles living in Athens.