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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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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 December 2019

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 December 2019

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 December 2019

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 December 2019

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 December 2019

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.

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PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY OF AUTHORITIES

Alfred SKORUPKA

Education, Learning, Management and Values

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019 Publication date: 10 May 2019

Abstract The author of this article presents his own psychology-based philosophical theory of authorities. Eight types of authorities are distinguished: oneself, parent, friend, teacher, loved one, supervisor at the place of employment, social opinion and the Highest Values. The study also distinguishes positive [...] Read more.

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SYMPATHY, JEALOUSY, SHAME IN THE MORAL NORMATIVE SYSTEM

Krystyna LEŚNIAK –MOCZUK

Education, Learning, Management and Values

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019 Publication date: 10 May 2019

Abstract Moral motivation has regulated people's behaviour since the beginning of time, and the feeling of shame is one of the oldest forms of moral reprimand. Showing sympathy, shame and jealousy is sociological in nature. The subject of this article is polemics on the issues of sympathy, jealousy and reflection [...] Read more.

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EDITORS GIEDROYĆ AND TUROWICZ - MANAGEMENT IN THE VALUE HORIZON

Dorota SIEROŃ-GALUSEK

Education, Learning, Management and Values

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019 Publication date: 10 May 2019

Abstract The analysis of the personal documents literature allowed the author of this article to compare the professional attitudes of two editors: Jerzy Giedroyć and Jerzy Turowicz, creators of Polish socio-cultural magazines. The article brings up such problem categories as: mission of the institution, financial [...] Read more.

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CHOICES, HOPES AND DILEMMAS – PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS OF YOUNG LEARNERS ABOUT THEIR CHOSEN PROFESSION

Anna SZAFRAŃSKA

Education, Learning, Management and Values

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019 Publication date: 10 May 2019

Abstract More than other professions, the teacher’s job requires unceasing activity, receptivity to changes in teaching methodology and constant search for new methods or forms of work adequate to learners’ needs. Students of pedagogy have to prepare for the teaching environment as it will be within a few years [...] Read more.

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GLOBALISATION OF IRREGULAR MIGRATION – THE CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION CRISIS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

Maciej SZOSTAK, Barbara WIŚNIEWSKA-PAŹ, Kamila ZARYCHTA-ROMANOWSKA

Problems of Migrations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019 Publication date: 10 May 2019

Abstract The authors examine the different aspects of contemporary migration phenomena and its perception, as changed by current migratory crisis. The different aspects of criminalisation of irregular migratory flows are being reflected in the different aspects of globalisation, organised crime and policing, [...] Read more.