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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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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CAPITAL - THE NEED OF A REDEFINITION OF CONCEPTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL CHANGES
Agnieszka JURCZAK
Human Individuals and Collectives in a Global Technological Setting
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 5 June 2018
Abstract The aim of the article is a critical evaluation of the concepts of social and cultural capital from the social sciences literature in the context of social changes currently taking place. On the basis of the analysis of these categories, the text presents a proposal to merge the two mentioned capitals [...] Read more.
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A HUMAN BEING IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD - CONSCIOUSNESS AS A KEY FACTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Joanna WYLĘŻAŁEK
Human Individuals and Collectives in a Global Technological Setting
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 5 June 2018
Abstract Contemporary knowledge concerning the human behavior mechanisms allows to assume that consciousness remains a key and universal factor of the process of the human search of his or her own individuality. To understand a nature of consciousness it is important to discover new spaces of thought that are [...] Read more.
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INITIAL COIN OFFERING (ICO): OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS
Dariusz Tadeusz DZIUBA
Technological Conditions and Effects of e-Development
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 3 June 2018
Abstract The study discusses the method of start-up financing through selling cryptocurrencies in the Internet environment. It is known as ICO (Initial Coin Offering). Its dynamic growth, rapid expansion of the scope of applications and an inflow of funding obtained this way has been observed since the first [...] Read more.
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EVOLUTION OF THE ICT ECOSYSTEM ON INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATIONS IN TIMES OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Piotr ADAMCZEWSKI
Technological Conditions and Effects of e-Development
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 3 June 2018
Abstract Solutions of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are the foundation of modern economic organizations in a knowledge economy. This is the case in particular in intelligent organizations, for which the advanced ICT infrastructure is the sine qua non condition for the effective knowledge [...] Read more.
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NETWORK SOCIETIES IN CONDITIONS OF EROSION OF THE CURRENT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER
Janusz GOLINOWSKI
Technological Conditions and Effects of e-Development
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 3 June 2018
Abstract Presented article discusses the subject of the modernising practices’ crisis, which arises at the foundations of political order. Technical development of information transmission, transport, telecommunication and computerisation; globalisation of financial flow, increase of amount of foreign investors [...] Read more.
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CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EBUSINESS IN THE WORLD
Mirosław Geise
Technological Conditions and Effects of e-Development
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 3 June 2018
Abstract The purpose of the study is explanation of micro and macroeconomic conditioning for development of the e-economy in the world. Simultaneity, intensity and multi-directionality of many economic processes caused that the existing balance of power in the global sector of new technologies and development [...] Read more.
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THE WORLD IN CRISIS OR IN POST-CRISIS ERA? AN ATTEMPT AT IDENTIFYING MAIN TRENDS
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK
The Future of Civilization – Transformations of the World
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 3 June 2018
Abstract The article is meant to identify and describe the six trends which I find essential from the point of view of shaping the emerging world. Unfortunately the real world cannot be put into a lab in order to measure the values of forces’ vectors and assess the resultant direction. Probablythis will never [...] Read more.
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
The Future of Civilization – Transformations of the World
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018, Publication date: 3 June 2018
Abstract The article contains reflections on the future of civilization in general and possible tendencies of further development of our Western civilization. Civilization is multidimensional and many factors affect its shape and development, but here one limits only to two important: knowledge and technology [...] Read more.
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MONOGRAPHY REVIEW ENTITLED: “POTENTIAL AND RELATIONS OF STRENGTHS IN DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY“PUBLISED BY POLTEXT, WARSAW 2018 P. 274 UNDER SCIENCE EDITION, BY PROF L.W. ZACHERA
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
Reviews
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
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MODERN FORMS OF PREPARATION TO RETIREMENTSELECTED RESULTS OF THE ERASMUS+ PROJECT BALL BE ACTIVE THROUGH LIFELONG LEARNING
Monika Dorota ADAMCZYK
Transformation Challenges (selected)
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Alongside with the development of social activity of older people, the process of increasing the educational activity of this group should follow. This type of activity makes it possible to not only to broaden knowledge and acquire new skills and competencies, but also to update the skills or knowledge [...] Read more.