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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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WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE MAYAN CIVILISATION?
Alfred SKORUPKA
Expieriences of the Past and Challenges of the Futures
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (109) 2021, Publication date: 20 June 2021
Abstract Article discusses history of Maya civilization. Author claims, that two causes of decline Maya civilization: wars between cities- states and ecological defeats are also danger for contemporaries’ civilizations. Read more.
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NOVELTIES, REPETITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WESTERN CIVILISATION
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Expieriences of the Past and Challenges of the Futures
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (109) 2021, Publication date: 20 June 2021
Abstract Western civilization (especially in the countries of Western Europe, the United States of America, Canada and Australia) undoubtedly surpassed in many respects earlier civilizations in human history. First of all, due to the number of significant scientific discoveries and technical inventions, the [...] Read more.
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BREGMAN, R. (2020) HOMO SAPIENS. PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN YOU THINK. POZNAŃ: DOLNOŚLĄSKIE PUBLISHING HOUSE (ISBN 978-83-271-6043-0)
Krzysztof MUDYŃ
Reviews
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 19 March 2021
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE ELDERLY IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS – THE NEED TO IMPLEMENT NEW LEGAL SOLUTIONS
Ewa M. KWIATKOWSKA
Health Safety– some transformative examples
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 19 March 2021
Abstract With the aging of societies and the growing possibilities of modern medicine, healthcare systems face new challenges. The ongoing digital transformation may allow for some of them to be overcome, i.a. enabling the provision of some remote healthcare services. Such activities can not only reduce costs [...] Read more.
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HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AFFECTING ROAD SAFETY
Łukasz WRÓBEL, Krzysztof JUREK
Health Safety– some transformative examples
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 19 March 2021
Abstract Road safety determinants can be divided into personal and non-personal factors. In the case of the former, the psychophysical state of road users and social determinants of dangerous behaviour are taken into account. This article is a voice in the discussion on the improvement of road traffic safety [...] Read more.
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SOCIAL COMMUNITIES IN CITY DISTRICTS ON THE EXAMPLES OF WARSAW’S URSUS AND GDAŃSK’S MŁODE MIASTO
Barbara GŁYDA
Zbiorowości ludzkie – stare i nowe strukturacje
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 18 March 2021
Abstract In the text, I discuss the subject of creating social communities in city districts on two examples: Warsaw’s Ursus and Gdańsk’s Młode Miasto. The activities conducted by the artists in those districts were aimed at creating/recreating the identity of the place by the citizens. Simultaneously, the renewal [...] Read more.
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POLITICAL ELITES IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOGOS, ETHOS AND PROFESSIONALISATION
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
Human Aggregates – Old and New Structurations
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 18 March 2021
Abstract The article presents an analysis of the formation of the elite from the classic - cultural and identity form to the hybrid ethos and professional form. The focus was on the political elite as a segment structurally and functionally separated from the intelligentsia. The roles, attributes and determinants [...] Read more.
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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: NEW SOCIETY OR THE END OF SOCIETY?
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK
Human Aggregates – Old and New Structurations
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 18 March 2021
Abstract The article attempts at answering topical questions, what is the morphology of present-day societies like, or what image of „socjety” emerges from sociological studies and research works devoted to technology, in what degree our knowledge on society is satisfactory, what we do not know yet, what are [...] Read more.
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WORLD WITHOUT AUTHORITIES
Marek CHLEBUŚ
Civilizational transformations – from theory to political practice
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 18 March 2021
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CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT ALBERT SCHWEITZER’S PHILOSOPHY OF CIVILIZATION
Alfred SKORUPKA
Civilizational transformations – from theory to political practice
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (108) 2021, Publication date: 18 March 2021
Abstract The article presents considerations about civilization written by Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Except that is here his curriculum vitae, philosophy and views about Indian religion and philosophy. The author claims that Schweitzer’s theory of civilization is rather “too idealistic”, because too much [...] Read more.