Social movement studies lie at the intersection of sociology and political science. This particular field of academic research not only represents and analyzes the formation of informal politics, but it also reflects the societal approach towards collective action. In this respect, we can understand the changes in the Greek society's views on various social movements, by examining Greek research in this field. Unfortunately, there is a lack of detailed accounts on social movements. The prevalence of political parties as the only means of representation for collective interests resulted in a lack of attention by the national and international academic community towards collective action (Kornetis and Kouki, 2016). Until the mid-1990s, mainstream scholarship treated social movements in Greece as a marginal culture, with the few accounts on the subject being products of historians and political scientists in their effort to complement wider narratives regarding the transformation of party politics. It was not until 1996 that a wind of modernization blew through the Greek academia, with the appearance of systematic research on social movements (Greek Review of Political Science, issue 8, 1996). Although this partially reflects the constrained role of social movements within mainstream politics, it is by no means reflective of their actual significance. A fully comprehensive historical account of the activities of social movements in Greece, while important, is beyond the scope of this study.