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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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TRANSFORMATIONS OF URBAN SOCIAL SPACES: TOWARDS METROPOLITAN STRUCTURES IN NETWORK SOCIETY?
Katarzyna KWIATOSZ
Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018, Publication date: 7 December 2018
Abstract Networking becomes a universal feature of modern technical civilization. The development of new information and communication technologies affects the transformation of social ties, social structures, values, norms and principles functioning in the network society. New technologies and the ongoing process [...] Read more.
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THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTHCARE
Ewa M. KWIATKOWSKA
Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018, Publication date: 7 December 2018
Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICT) aimed at improving the standard of the healthcare services are defined as e-health. Introduction of an e-health should improve the quality and access to healthcare services. At the same time sector effectiveness should increase. The use of ICT in this [...] Read more.
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THE MAIN FACTORS OF THE DIGITALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY
Natalja GZHIBOVSKA, Ilvija GZHIBOVSKA
Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018, Publication date: 7 December 2018
Abstract Today, no one will talk about the prerequisites of the world digital revolution. Because it is already happening. Today, more or less every person, to one degree or another, uses gadgets and modern digital services, ranging from social networks, television and entertainment, ending with public services [...] Read more.
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SOCIAL ECONOMY AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Anastasiia SIMAKHOVA
Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018, Publication date: 7 December 2018
Abstract Relevance of development of the digital economy in the global world is determined by the need to consider its relationship with the social economy. All developed countries of the world have a strong social basis. In spite of various models of social economy, the well-being of the population, social [...] Read more.
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EXPECTATIONS, DISAPPOINTMENTS AND HOPES RELATED TO INFORMATION SOCIETY (A FUTURIST APPROACH)
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018, Publication date: 7 December 2018
Abstract We live in times of building an information society and of delighting with the expected benefits after its completion. The social masses usually perceive superficially the effects of the development of the information society. They enjoy that because of computerization, robotization and dissemination [...] Read more.
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CONSTRUCTIVE AND COMMUNICATION ASPECTSOF SHAPING SECURITY CULTURE AT SCHOOL
Iwona BŁASZCZAK, Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 6 June 2018
Abstract Recent years are a period of changes in the polish educational system not only concerning the ones in structures and functions of schools, but also considering the implementation of new standards of educating, new aims as well as requirements for the scientifically-educational staff. The culture of [...] Read more.
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ELEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW VERSUS THE ANTI-CRISIS INITIATIVE FOR EUROPE IN THE POST-HUMANIST WORLD
Jadwiga SEBESTA, Eugeniusz SZYMIK
In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 6 June 2018
Abstract The present-day ideological decline entails a serious crisis of values, taking place against the background of civilisation changes. The exceptional economic achievements in the developed countries clash with the destabilisation of a thought which diverges from any coherent vision of a human being and [...] Read more.
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POST-NATIONAL REVOLUTION AS A SOURCE OF POLILTICAL CONFLICTS IN THE EU COUNTRIES
Jakub POTULSKI
In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 6 June 2018
Abstract Processes related to the formation of the so-called Information society affects the transformation of social structure in highly developed countries. Alongside these processes, new social divisions and new areas of political conflicts are emerging. The arrival of the "third wave of civilisation" is [...] Read more.
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POLITICAL GELOTOLOGY
Marek SOKOŁOWSKI, Wojciech Krzysztof SZALKIEWICZ
In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 6 June 2018
Abstract Humour and laughter with it have been for many years the subject of research by many scholars who for centuries have been thinking about their essence and their function in social life because of the important and diverse role that it plays in the everyday life of individuals and groups. One of the [...] Read more.
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THE INFLUENCE OF AUTOMATION ON PHYSICAL WORK. SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Andrzej LEMAŃSKI
In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 6 June 2018
Abstract The automation of work it is not a new economic or social problem. The roots of this date back to the beginning of the industrial era to the luddite movement and then to the 60s and 70s of the XX century when first computers and robots started to perform the human job. Nowadays we are witnessing another [...] Read more.