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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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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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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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STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION INFORMATIZATION
Andrzej TARGOWSKI
Sustainable Development – Some Challenges
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (104-105) 2020, Publication date: 14 February 2022
Abstract The article proposes strategic objectives for the development of a sustainable civilization. These should be based on a Geoinformation Management System monitoring civilization based on established indexes measuring the state of civilization. The monitoring needs be based on a uniform system on many [...] Read more.
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POVERTY - CHALLENGE OF THE MODERN WORLD
Murman KVARATSKHELIA
Everlasting Problems
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract Poverty is still one of the most serious problems in developing countries. The social and economic effects of global structural change are difficult to assess. Poverty, as a negative phenomenon, in order to be eliminated, requires a scientific study. Increasing knowledge of the conditions of poverty [...] Read more.
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OUTLINE OF CHANGES IN POLISH ELITES: FROM NOBLE DEMOCRACY TO CIVIL SOCIETY
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
Formation of Elites – Between Theories and Practices
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract The problems discussed in the article are interdisciplinary character and fit mainly in the area of sociology of social structures, historical sociology and intellectual history1. The issues presented in it are focused on the analytical approach to changes taking place in the evolution of the elites [...] Read more.
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WHO WILL HAND OUT THE CARDS IN THE GAME FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE?
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Modeling Development – Between History and the Future
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract The article contains reflections on shaping the future in accordance with the concept of sustainable development. The first part contains consideration on the issue of the purposefulness of shaping a sustainable future. The second part deals with the problem of responsibility for the further development [...] Read more.
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CHINA ACCORDING TO CARROLL QUIGLEY’S MODEL OF EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS
Alfred SKORUPKA
Modeling Development – Between History and the Future
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract Carroll Quigley (1910-1977), an American scientist, distinguished seven phases in a development of every civilization: mixture, gestation, expansion, age of conflict, universal empire, decay, invasion. In the case of Middle Kingdom, he identified there two communities: Sinic (2000 BC-400 AD) and Chinese [...] Read more.
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CYBERSECURITY IN A HYPERCONNECTIVE SPACE. THE OLD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE?
Alina BETLEJ
Informatization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – Challenges and Practical Experiences
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract The article analyzes the issue of new risks and challenges of cybersecurity of companies operating in hyperconnective space. The development of information and communication technologies affects the transformation of social space. The implications of technologically mediated transformations of the social [...] Read more.
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CONTRACTING AS A TOOL FOR REGULATING LABOR RESOURCES AT THE MICRO LEVEL
Nataliya V. MAKOVSKAYA
Informatization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – Challenges and Practical Experiences
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract Methodological tools for the regulation of labor resources at the micro level of the national economy of the Republic of Belarus can be represented as the formation of the institutional framework for the use of human capital through a contracting system. This idea is justified by the fact that the contracting [...] Read more.
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INSTITUTIONAL BASICS OF THE TRANSITION TO E-ECONOMY IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
Elena B. DORINA, Tatsiana S. KORZUN
Informatization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – Challenges and Practical Experiences
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract The process of transition to e-economy has its unique institutional background. There can be seen diverse way of thinking about the functions of modern institutions in transformation that is rather described as social, policy-independent. In the theories ( transaction cost economics, property rights [...] Read more.
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UNIVERSITY FOR E-SOCIETY: PROSPECTS AND PRACTICES OF DIGITAL HIGHER EDUCATION
Ryhor MINIANKOU
Informatization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – Challenges and Practical Experiences
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract Digitalization of education is both a logical result and a driving force of the development of e-society. The classical idea of the university becomes a thing of the past. A digital university is being actively formed, whose organization responds to new dimensions of space and time in a situation of [...] Read more.
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EDUCATION AND FORMATION OF DIGITAL ECONOMY IN BELARUS
Nina BOHDAN
Informatization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – Challenges and Practical Experiences
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (102-103) 2019, Publication date: 11 February 2022
Abstract The article discusses the specifics of innovation activities and the formation of human potential for the digital economy development in Belarus. There has been carried out a comparative analysis of individual indicators characterizing the development of the Information and Communication Technologies [...] Read more.