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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
Journal article
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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CHINA. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CIVILIZATION
Alfred Skorupka
Varia
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The article discusses the main features of Chinese civilization. For centuries, the culture of the Middle Kingdom was defined primarily by Confucianism. Today it is also influential, but the life and worldview of the Chinese are largely defined by socialism combined with many elements of the capitalist [...] Read more.
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THE USE OF THE FRAMING EFFECT FOR PROMOTING COVID-19 VACCINATION
Aleksandra Szymanowska, Alexander Watzl, Jakub Szporka
Public health - problems and challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract Policy makers often use techniques based on citizens\\\' cognitive errors to achieve their public policy goals. During the COVID-19 pandemic, each one of the greatest challenges faced by those in power was to mount an effective campaign to encourage widespread vaccination against the virus. The article [...] Read more.
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CHANGES IN STUDENT AND FAMILY LIFE DUE TO THE PANDEMIC IN THE OPINION OF STUDENTS
Ewa Skrzetuska, Agnieszka Rowicka
Public health - problems and challenges
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The article presents the issue of changes in the life of students who due to the need for remote learning during the pandemic, had to modify their daily study activities. Many of them returned to their family home for that time, some stayed in rented apartments, and only few lived in student dormitories [...] Read more.
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ACADEMIC CULTURE OF GENERATION "Z", I.E. PEDAGOGY STUDENTS’ PRACTICE OF BEHAVIOURS THAT PART OF ACADEMIC CULTURE
Arleta Hrehorowicz, Magdalena Gietka
Public health - problems and challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The aim of the content contained in the article is to present the results of the author’s research on academic culture among the representatives of generation “Z”. The subject of this study is the degree to which SGGW pedagogy students practice behaviours that are part of academic culture. The authors [...] Read more.
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MEDIA AS A SOURCE OF RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
Bogusław Dziadzia
Public health - problems and challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The subject of article focuses on the ethical role of the media in creating a threat to public health. The discussion attempts to answer the question of how the media and broadly understood mass communication while performing several pro-social functions, can pose a risk to public health. I emphasize [...] Read more.
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IN SEARCH OF A BIOCENTRIC DEFINITION OF INTELLIGENCE. PLANTS ARE SMARTER THAN 'SMART MACHINES'
Krzysztof Mudyń
Culture, technology and man in the age of new media
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The author, referring to the classic definition of William Stern, proposes that intellgence should be understood as the ability to actively and effectively adapt, ensuring the continuity of existence in time while maintaining the relative identity of the species (system). Such an extended definition [...] Read more.
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THE IRONY TECHNIQUE AND THE SUBJECT - CHANGES OF EXISTING STATE OF AFFAIR IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Monika Miczka-Pajestka
Culture, technology and man in the age of new media
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The article dwells over the problem of putting the man as the subject in the world of multiplicity and diversity, thereby in the matter of many orders simultaneously. It indicated the current circumstances of primacy of technique and technology in the existing social norms and cultural spaces, which [...] Read more.
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STAR, IDOL OR CELEBRITY? HYPERPRESENCE OF POP CULTURE MUSICIANS
Magdalena Szpunar
Culture, technology and man in the age of new media
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The article concerns the process of democratization of fame and hyperpresence of musicians for whom it becomes a strategy in the era of overproduction of one-season stars and celebrities. The article puts forward the thesis that obtaining the status of a star, including a music star, and the popularity [...] Read more.
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THE CUTE POWER OF SWEETNESS. KAWAII CULTURE AS SOFT POWER OF JAPAN
Marek Sokołowski
Culture, technology and man in the age of new media
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The article draws attention to an important element of contemporary Japanese culture, which is the kawaii culture. Over the past thirty years, Japanese popular culture products have been massively exported, sold and consumed throughout East and Southeast Asia. The expansion of the cute Japanese animated [...] Read more.
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CYBERCRIME IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE STATE. ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PROBLEMS
Mateusz JUREK
Structures, tasks, actions
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1 (116) 2023,  Publication date: 31 March 2023
Abstract The article describes the phenomenon of cybercrime in the era of digital transformation of the state. The author analyzed selected problems related to the emergence of new types of cyber threats. He compared the definitions of cyber-security and cybercrime in different theoretical approaches. He presented [...] Read more.