HOW MONOCULTURE ECONOMIES WORK IN THE CONDITIONS OF GROWING TENSIONS IN NATURAL RESOURCES MARKETS

Mirosław GEISE, Maria Ewa SZATLACH

Transformation Challenges (selected)

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The article is an attempt to verify the concept of Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew M. Warner`s about „the curse of natural resources”1. According to the researchers, if the country has abundant natural resources that create a monoculture structure of economy, it reduces the supply of capital needed to run [...] Read more.

THE POST-FACTORY: ON THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PLACE

Aleksandra KUNCE

Transformation Challenges (selected)

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The author of this interpretation focuses on the post-factory from the anthropological point of view. How can we transform the post-factory into a place? The post-factory is a place of unique reconciliation. It is where a ritual has taken place, one involving not only the material aspect of existence [...] Read more.

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.

TENDENCIES OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GEORGIA IN THE EPOCH OF GLOBALIZATION

M.S. KVARATSKHELIA

National Cases Augmented

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The modern post - communist epoch is characterized by special properties. The unprecedented pace of the scientific and technological revolution in various spheres of public life has caused the expansion, change and diversity of the phenomenon of globalization. This, naturally, gave rise to various points [...] Read more.

ENSURING SOCIAL SECURITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: PROBLEMS, INSTRUMENTS, TRENDS IN THE CONTEXT OF UKRAINE AND LITHUANIA

Valeriy NIKOLAYEVSKYY, Victoria OMELCHENKO, Vladas TUMALAVICIUS

National Cases Augmented

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The authors follow structural functionalism and neofunctionalism as dominant methodology for interpretation of social security as a social institution (mechanism) controlling homeostasis and sustainability of the social system (society). Security in the contemporary society is a very complex, ambiguous [...] Read more.

THE MEDIA DECENTRALIZATION AS A BASIS FOR RESISTANCE AGAINST HEGEMONY: THE CASES OF POLAND, SPAIN AND MEXICO

Radosław SAJNA

New Media in Action

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract In discussions about resistance and hegemony the problem of the media decentralization seems to be very important, above all in transition societies aiming to build modern democratic countries. Every authoritarian or totalitarian regime (including fascist, communist and others) creates centralized structures [...] Read more.

INNOVATION OF NEW MEDIA CULTURAL PRODUCT – THE CASE OF KONTAKT24.PL

Katarzyna KOPECKA-PIECH

New Media in Action

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract Nowadays, new media generate new models of cultural production. In order to determine their potential and effectiveness, the issues of its innovation need to be taken into account. The aim of this article has been to look at the culture management through the prism of a cultural product, namely to capture [...] Read more.

MAN FACING MULTIPLICITY AND DIVERSITY AND RESPONSIBILITY AND RELATIONALITY IN THE POSTMODERN EDUCATION

Joanna LORENC, Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA

Research and Education Issues

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The following article presents and analyzes the problem of "being" of the child in the world of multiplicity and diversity. The authors of the study consider the issue of the search, of man in general, and in particular of teachers, for the way to adapt to the multiplicity, which is the domain of postmodernity [...] Read more.

SIGN – TECHNOLOGY – SIMULATION REFLECTIONS ON THE PROJECT OF JEAN BAUDRILLARD’S RESEARCH METHOD

Jan GONDEK

Research and Education Issues

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract Contemporary social reality is determined by the mode in which new technologies function. The mass media have become a factor instrumental in introducing a new social order. Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation may be interpreted as the basis for developing a research method explicating modern phenomena [...] Read more.

DO WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT AN ETHICS INTO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Wojciech Jerzy BOBER

Impact of New Technologies

Publication language: English

Journal article

Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017,  Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are thought to be one of major solutions to the problem of traffic-related deaths (ca 1.25 million people worldwide per year). Unfortunately, this kind of technology is not expected to eliminate them completely. Therefore, researchers start to put questions about rules, including [...] Read more.