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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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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
Journal article
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
Journal article
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.
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DIAGNOSIS OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SECURITY OF LOWER SILESIA
Maciej POPŁAWSKI
Regional and Local Issues and Challenges
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019,  Publication date: 9 May 2019
Abstract The aim of the article is to present a diagnosis of the socio-economic security of Lower Silesia, which was created as a result of the analysis of socio-economic security factors in Lower Silesia. The first part of the article presents a justification for undertaking research on this topic, and then [...] Read more.
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REGIONAL SEPARATENESS OF MODERN CATALAN SOCIETY
Aneta NOWICKA
Regional and Local Issues and Challenges
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019,  Publication date: 9 May 2019
Abstract Regionalism plays a very important role in the political life of Spain, as evidenced by the name "Estado de las autonomias", which means "state of autonomous regions." The regions of Spain have extensive autonomous powers, they are also called "autonomous communities". They are diverse in terms of culture [...] Read more.
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LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF SELECTED CONTEMPORARY MACROPROCESSES
Katarzyna DZIEWULSKA- BANDURA
Regional and Local Issues and Challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019,  Publication date: 9 May 2019
Abstract The concept of a local community is one of the basic sociological concepts. An important aspect in the context of local communities is the common territory. The article is concerned with the impact of globalization processes and migration on the concept of local communities, which are increasingly being [...] Read more.
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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AS A FACTOR IN CHANGING THE QUALITY OF A MARRIAGE
Marta KORPOROWICZ
Quality of Life – Various Levels and Dimensions
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019,  Publication date: 9 May 2019
Abstract In this article, I would like to address the impact of Alzheimer's disease on the quality of marriage in the assessment of healthy spouses who become the primary carers of their partners in the face of the disease. Alzheimer's disease causes permanent and increasing brain damage which results in changes [...] Read more.
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SOCIO – ECONOMIC WELFARE AND LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH LIFE – ON THE EXAMPLES OF SELECTED COUNTRIES
Ewa POLAK, Waldemar POLAK
Quality of Life – Various Levels and Dimensions
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019,  Publication date: 9 May 2019
Abstract The article concerns issues of the quality of life, satisfaction with life, its determinants, methods of measuring these and their dependence on income and other factors . Quality of life is an abstract, rather vague term, and is determined by hundreds of factors. There is no clear-cut definition and [...] Read more.
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THE STATE AS CONFRONTED WITH THE DARWINIST TENDENCIES OF THE MODERN ECONOMY
Janusz GOLINOWSKI
Social and Economic Transformations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (100-101) 2019,  Publication date: 9 May 2019
Abstract The article discusses the crisis of modernising practices’ arising at the foundations of the political order. Changes in world development unveil nuance and ambivalence of contemporary state politics. The widespread application of global context in political research enabled not only the emergence of [...] Read more.