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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
Journal article
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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VIDEO SURVEILLANCE AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY. WORK AT SEA VS WORK ON LAND
Arkadiusz KOŁODZIEJ, Krzysztof TOMANEK, Agnieszka KOŁODZIEJ-DURNAŚ
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract One of the fundamental human rights guaranteed in Poland by the Constitution is the right to privacy. Respect for a person's private life can be analysed in different fields, within different relationships. We expect the right to our privacy to be respected both in our relationship with the state, in [...] Read more.
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SOCIAL ANIMATION AS A FORM OF PREVENTIVE WORK IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
Krystyna LEŚNIAK- MOCZUK
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract The article addresses the issue of social animation as a form of preventive work carried out in the local community, set in the context of contemporary changes in social policy and social work. The starting point is the assumption that the intensifying phenomena of marginalisation, social disintegration [...] Read more.
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE PROGRAMMES OF POLISH POLITICAL PARTIES (FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS)
Piotr SWACHA, Michał R. WĘSIERSKI, Michał WUJEK
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract The aim of this article is to conduct an in-depth analysis of the presence of local government in the programmes of Polish political parties between 2007 and 2019. The study uses Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Discourse Network Analysis (DNA) tools in relation to data coded as part of the Manifesto [...] Read more.
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THE ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATION OF MINISTRIES OF AGRICULTURE IN POLAND
Radosław KUBICKI
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract The research objective of this article is to review the transformations taking place in ministries related to the agricultural sector. In order to achieve this objective, the following research methods were used: the institutional-legal method and the historical method. The research revealed that the [...] Read more.
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THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF ENERGY TRANSITION – THE CASE OF THE KONIN SUBREGION
Tomasz HERUDZIŃSKI
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract The article analyses the local dimension of energy transition with particular emphasis on the concept of just transition. The subject of the study is the Konin subregion located in Eastern Greater Poland, which was selected for analysis due to the fact that its representatives were among the first in [...] Read more.
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CHANGES IN THE IMAGE AND ETHOS OF THE POLISH ARMY AFTER 1989
Marcin POLETYŁO
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract The aim of this article is to trace the changes that took place in the image and ethos of the military after 1989, especially in areas that are overlooked or underestimated in research dedicated to them. The author distinguishes two opposing processes during this period. The first is related to the [...] Read more.
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TIME UNRAVELLED. SOCIAL JETLAG AS A HIDDEN SOURCE OF FAMILY DYSSYNCHRONY
Katarzyna ZIELIŃSKA-KRÓL
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract The modern rhythm of life, dominated by productivity pressures, shift work, early school hours and intensive use of digital technologies, leads to a growing discrepancy between biological and social clocks – a phenomenon known as social jetlag. This article presents social jetlag as an important factor [...] Read more.
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EMPLOYMENT DUALISMS AND FINANCIAL DEFICITS OF EMPLOYEES BASED ON THE PANDEMIC DIARIES
Elżbieta KOLASIŃSKA
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract This article is a theoretical and empirical analysis. The main focus of the article is to present employment dualisms and the financial deficits experienced by some workers in the context of the initial period of the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic crisis deepened employment dualism and also contributed [...] Read more.
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HOW DO STUDENTS PERCEIVE THE WORLD OF WILD ANIMALS AND NATURE? OR ABOUT THE BAMBI SYNDROME IN THE Z GENERATION
Arleta HREHOROWICZ, Krzysztof KLIMASZEWSKI
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract The subject of this analysis is the beliefs of Generation Z representatives on the phenomenon of Bambi syndrome. The study was conducted using a diagnostic survey method with a questionnaire completed by 188 students of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW). The aim of the study was to check [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE EDITORIAL IN SPECIALISED PRESS: THE CASE OF TEXTS FROM THE MONTHLY “PIŁKA NOŻNA PLUS”
Patryk IWAŃCZYK,
Publication language: Polish
scientific paper
Transformations No. 3(126)2025, Publication date: 30 September 2025
Abstract TThe article analyses editorials (also referred to as editorial commentaries, introductory articles, or leading editorials) published in the now-defunct monthly magazine Piłka Nożna Plus between 2004 and 2013. Their author was Adam Godlewski, who during the period under consideration served as the journal [...] Read more.