Panayis Panagiotopoulos is Associate Professor of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

• Chapter 1: Introductory observations.- Chapter 2: The social emotions of the middle class in the western world - Drafting a historical framework.- Chapter 3: What the middle class is and what it wants - The social space of the middle class in Greece today.- Chapter 4 : The “typical” Greek family - Mechanics of social consent in the middle strata of the Metapolitefsi.- Chapter 5: The identity of the middle class in an insecure Greece - Division, new inequalities, negative polyvalence.- Chapter 6: Private sphere, middle class and individual experience - Negations and concealments in the social sciences.- Chapter 7: Concluding remarks: The Greek middle class, just before, during and after the pandemic.

Panayis Panagiotopoulos is Associate Professor of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

• Chapter 1: Introductory observations.- Chapter 2: The social emotions of the middle class in the western world - Drafting a historical framework.- Chapter 3: What the middle class is and what it wants - The social space of the middle class in Greece today.- Chapter 4 : The “typical” Greek family - Mechanics of social consent in the middle strata of the Metapolitefsi.- Chapter 5: The identity of the middle class in an insecure Greece - Division, new inequalities, negative polyvalence.- Chapter 6: Private sphere, middle class and individual experience - Negations and concealments in the social sciences.- Chapter 7: Concluding remarks: The Greek middle class, just before, during and after the pandemic.