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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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WEB ADMINISTRATIVE CONNECTIVITY IN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM: A COMPARATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

Shilpa KUMRAWAT (DHAMUNIYA)

Information Society: Education

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016 Publication date: 19 November 2016

Abstract The combination of education and technology has been considered the main key to human progress. Education feed technology, which in turn forms the basis of education. it is therefore evident that information technology has affected to the methods, purpose and perceived potential of education . In order [...] Read more.

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FOLLOWING A HYPERTEXT – INTO GENERATING CHANGES OF POLISH EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM IN POLISH SCHOOL

Ilona COPIK, Eugeniusz SZYMIK

Information Society: Education

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016 Publication date: 19 November 2016

Abstract The aim of this paper is a critical reflection on the concept of the subject called Polish language which is contained in the core curriculum of general education at the third and fourth level of education ( middle school / high school ). It was made from the perspective of teaching practice and theoretical [...] Read more.

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“DIALOGUE THROUGH CONFLICT”. ON SPECIFICS OF INTERPERSONAL CONTACTS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF MULTIMEDIA

Tadeusz MICZKA

Digital World in the Making

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016 Publication date: 19 November 2016

Abstract Modern communication processes between people and cultures taking place in the conditions of techno-everydayness, glocalisation and the formation of new morals and ethics are difficult to characterize and interpret in the light of the rich heritage of the philosophy of conflict and the philosophy of [...] Read more.

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DIGITALIZATION OF JAIPUR VIDHYUT VITRAN NIGAM LIMITED: A CASE STUDY

Jitendra CHAUDHARY SINGH

Digital World in the Making

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016 Publication date: 19 November 2016

Abstract This study examines the functionality of applying e- governance to the power distribution sector in Rajasthan. The State has many ongoing projects as far as digitalization is concern and this sector extends infrastructural support for the development. It is important empirical study that indicates what [...] Read more.

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF INFORMATION WAVE INTO VIRTUAL CIVILIZATION AND ITS ETHICS QUESTION

Andrew S. TARGOWSKI

Digital World in the Making

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016 Publication date: 19 November 2016

Abstract The purpose of this investigation is to define the central contents and issues of the impact of informing systems on the rise and development of Virtual Civilization. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary big-picture view of the Virtual Civilization’s elements of development and their interdependency [...] Read more.

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SALVATION IN DEMOCRACY

Andrzej Sepkowski

GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS – IDEAS, POLICIES

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 17 May 2016

Abstract Democracies need coercion primarily to take action without overly privileging the status quo. When individual interests come in, which gives every indication of being an irreconcilable conflict, a democratic polity must either reinforce the status quo by taking no action or by taking action, force or [...] Read more.

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THE GLOBALIZATION AND INCOME INEQUALITIES

Ewa Polak

GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS – IDEAS, POLICIES

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 17 May 2016

Abstract This paper looks at the issue of the differentiation of earnings in Poland. The article is intended to draw attention to changes in the situation of income structure in that respect over the past few years. One of the tendencies observed in the contemporary world is growing socio-economic stratification [...] Read more.

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NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE MODERN STATE – A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

Marek Rewizorski

GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS – IDEAS, POLICIES

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 17 May 2016

Abstract Neoliberal globalisation is characterised by the marketisation of sectors previously audited by the state, the incorporation of individual countries and even regions within the framework of the capitalist world market and the subordination of the various spheres of human activity to automated impersonal [...] Read more.

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ECONOMIC-BASED DYCHOTOMY BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE EAST AS AN ELEMENT OF POSITIONING ON THE WORLD MAP

Janusz Golinowski

GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS – IDEAS, POLICIES

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 17 May 2016

Abstract During the past few decades, among various intellectuals, there was a dominant opinion that universal civilisation is being created and its rules are the foundations of western civilization. Liberal democracy, pluralism, individualism or human rights were supposed to be universally desired and acclaimed [...] Read more.

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CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEW MEDIA

Urszula Żydek-Bednarczuk

CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEW MEDIA

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016 Publication date: 14 May 2016

Abstract This article presents reflections on the complex phenomenon of information and knowledge in the new media. The introduction is a brief overview of knowledge from the point of view of classical knowledge with its taxonomy, classification and falsification. A very important part of the article is to understand [...] Read more.