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TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)
Lech W. ZACHER
UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 12 May 2016
Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.
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METHODOLOGICAL ANARCHISM AND ITS COGNITIVE VALUE
Magdalena SZPUNAR
Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022, Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The aim of the article is to present the basic assumptions of Paul K. Feyerabend's epistemological anarchism. The article presents the value of methodological anarchism for the cognitive process, methodology and development of science, as well as the controversies associated with the application of [...] Read more.
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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS
Lech W. ZACHER
Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (78-79) 2013, Publication date: 13 November 2013
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OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABILITY – IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE (the Case of a Transitional Economy – Poland)
Lech W. ZACHER
National Cases Augmented
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Requirements for the sustainability in economy and society should be tailored to a given country or region. General models which often dominate in academic discourse are an important part of necessary social knowledge (of decision makers, media, NGOs etc.). They are formulated in universally relevant [...] Read more.
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WAYS OF INNOVATIVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE INDUSTRY STRUCTURE OF THE GEORGIA ECONOMY UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
Ramaz ABESADZE, Vakhtang BURDULI
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract The work examines the factors that complicate the implementation of innovation in sectors of the Georgian economy in the conditions of a new technological revolution (the process of transition to a new technological structure) and the prerequisites for overcoming them. The technologies of the key factor [...] Read more.
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FROM FUTURISM THROUGH ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY TO ONLINE SOUND MAPS. SOUND SPACE IN CULTURE, ART AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Justyna KUSTO
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract Nowadays, the sound space turns out to be a wonderful tool used as a field of artistic and cultural activities. On the one hand, there are many movements to-wards conscious listening to the sound environment, such as organized sound walks. On the other hand, interest in the audiosphere appears not only [...] Read more.
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ROAD SAFETY IN POLAND IN THE CONTEXT OF APPLICABLE LAW REGULATIONS
Mateusz JUREK
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract The article aims at presenting the current legal provisions that relate to reg-ulations affecting road safety in Poland. Selected legal acts regulating the issues of road safety were analysed and presented by the author of this work and the basic terms related to the analysed topic were discussed. [...] Read more.
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THE ELEMENTS OF A CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN THE CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Jacek WYSOCKI, Anna STRYCHALSKA-RUDZEWICZ
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract The aim of this paper is to ascertain the importance of the elements of a cir-cular economy used by manufacturing companies in the context of their environmental activities. The results of empirical studies carried out in small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Poland are presented. They concerned [...] Read more.
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SOCIETY’S SECURITY IN POLAND IN THE CONTEXT OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESOCIALIZATION SOLUTIONS AFTER 1989. SELECTED ISSUES
Wojciech GIZICKI, Anna WARMIŃSKA
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract Resocializing prisoners is a process that affects the level of achieved social functions after finishing a prison term. It is essential to reduce recidivism rates and significantly reduce the threat to society posed by former prisoners. In the process of supporting inmates related to their return to [...] Read more.
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IS THIS THE END OF SPACE LAW?
Małgorzata POLKOWSKA
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract This article deals with international space law and the need to update existing law due to rapidly developing technology and space exploration by states and individuals. The lack of authority of space law is increasingly discussed and its legitimacy is questioned. Space treaties dating back to the Seventies [...] Read more.
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TRANSHUMANISM AGAINST THE TASK OF CULTURE
Samuel MARUSZEWSKI
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract If the task of culture is a continuous ethical advancement of human beings and the development of their personalities through the means of symbolization, then the transhumanist movement sabotages that task, notably by the regression of human subjects towards a technocratic cult of imagination to be [...] Read more.
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GLOSSARY TO THE JUDGMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE OF 13 JUNE 2024, C-411/23
Martyna KUBERSKA
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 2(121)2024, Publication date: 30 June 2024
Abstract The subject of this publication is an approving gloss on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter: "CJEU") of 13 June 2024, C-411/23. In the judgment voted on, the CJEU ruled that a latent design defect in an aircraft engine does not entitle passengers to compensation, [...] Read more.
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RUCHY SPOŁECZNE OSÓB STARSZYCH I DZIAŁALNOŚĆ POKOLENIOWA SENIORÓW W PERSPEKTYWIE FRANCUSKO- POLSKIEJ
Ewa BOGALSKA- MARTIN, Anna WACHOWIAK
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1(120)2024, Publication date: 31 March 2025
Abstract We wszystkich społeczeństwach europejskich rośnie jak nigdy dotąd mediana wieku a to oznacza coraz większy udział procentowy osób starszych i najstarszych w całej populacji. Polityki społeczne różnych państw otwierają się na te wyzwania. Dążą też do celu najważniejszego, jakim jest równe traktowanie [...] Read more.
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REALIZACJA MODELU PRAWNO- CZŁOWIECZEGO NIEPEŁNOSPRAWNOŚCI NA ŁOTWIE . NA PODSTAWIE KONWENCJI ONZ O PRAWACH OSÓB NIEPEŁNOSPRAWNYCH
Tomasz KASPRZAK
Publication language: Polish
Transformations No. 1(120)2024, Publication date: 29 March 2024
Abstract Łotwa ratyfikowała Konwencję ONZ o Prawach Osób Niepełnosprawnych 1 marca 2010 roku. Ratyfikacja Konwencji oznaczała, że Łotwa formalnie zaakceptowała i zobowiązała się do przestrzegania postanowień tego międzynarodowego dokumentu. Wdrożenie Konwencji oznacza, że Łotwa zobowiązała się do podejmowania [...] Read more.