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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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MEDIA LOKALNE W SZCZECINIE. RAPORT Z BADAŃ MEDIÓW LOKALNYCH W SZCZECINIE W 2010 ROKU, RED. JAN KANIA, ROBERT CIEŚLAK, SZCZECIN, WYDAWNICTWO NAUKOWE UNIWERSYTETU SZCZECIŃSKIEGO, 2011, 316 SS. ISBN 978-83-77241-827-2

Magdalena PRZYBYSZ-STAWSKA

Reviews

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 6 May 2015

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BEYOND BORDERS - TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS A COMMON KNOWLEDGE REGION - CONCLUSIONS FROM THE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED REGIONAL DOCUMENTS OF THE SILESIAN PROVINCE AND THE MORAVIAN - SILESIAN REGION

Małgorzata SUCHACKA

Transformational Problems and Examples

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 6 May 2015

Abstract The aim of this paper is a comparative analysis of regional development strategies in Silesia and the Silesian - Moravian district in Czech Republic - as two regions with industrial traditions that are in transition. The key words of these analysis are innovations and learning region. The main question [...] Read more.

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TRANSFORMATIONS OF PROFESSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY

Barbara KOZIERKIEWICZ

Transformational Problems and Examples

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 6 May 2015

Abstract New professions are being developed as a result of external forces, like new technologies or development of big organizations, or due to internal changes within the professions, like specialization or delegation of work to other, subordinate groups. Today these changes are more frequent than in history [...] Read more.

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SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL MOBILITY IN POLAND - A COMPARISON WITH THE RESULTS OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN MOBILITY TAKING PLACE IN POLAND IN THE YEARS 1992-2008

Katarzyna SOKOŁOWSKA

Transformational Problems and Examples

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 6 May 2015

Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the factors influencing the subjective social mobility in Poland on the basis of the outcome of estimation of logit models for the years 1992.1999 and 2008. The following paper uses data obtained from a survey: the "Polish General Social Survey" (PGSS) carried out [...] Read more.

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THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC SERVICES PROVIDED FOR ENTERPRISES IN EUROPEAN UNIO

Jerzy BARUK

Transformational Problems and Examples

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 6 May 2015

Abstract System creating of conditions of the cooperation between different categories of contemporary organizations functioning on market is the basic factor of their success. Industrial and service organizations - providing services for enterprises - belong to this kind of organizations. In the publication [...] Read more.

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DEATH – „ I LIKE IT”

Bogdan ZELER

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract The paper will present reflections about the phenomena that we observe in a network environment, especially on portals: peculiar fascination with death. Good news, arousing readers' interest is focused on their interest, as well Internet users. The network is also a place where we can find an authentic [...] Read more.

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THE SANCTITY CONSUMED. THE MEDIA APOTHEOSIS OF STEVE JOBS AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF CATEGORY OF "THE SACRED" IN MODERN CULTURE

Barbara ORZEŁ

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract How did Steve Jobs become a saint? In this article I compare the classical meaning of "the sacred" with the images produced within popculture. There is no doubt, that a deeply ingrained cultural scheme can be a great (and very "safe") foundation for further ideas. In the connection with that way of [...] Read more.

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LITERARY AND READER’S GAMES. ARCHETYPTURE TRANSFORMATIONS BY ANDRZEJ GŁOWACKI

Grażyna PIETRUSZEWSKA-KOBIELA

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract The article pays attention to changes of books and literature caused by leaving linear system and turning to solutions made by releasing from logical and unambiguous semantics. The common character of this phenomenon coming from artstic avant-garde traditions published at the beginning of the 20th century [...] Read more.

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THE EVERLASTING RENAISSANCE OF THE UNIVERSITY

Dominik KUBICKI

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract In the context of the contemporary postmodern consumer societies, the era of virtual technologies in he globalising world, the author raises the question of the European university. The European university is seen as a product of the medieval culture (Christianitas), integrally embedded in the civilisation [...] Read more.

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THE CITY AS THE WORK OF ART. SHAPING THE PUBLIC SPACE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ONTOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION

Bartłomiej KNOSALA, Grażyna OSIKA, Barbara ROŻAŁOWSKA

Cultural and Literary Transformations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (84-85) 2015 Publication date: 5 May 2015

Abstract In the article, the authors show how the changing patterns of communication affect the approach to public space. The appearance of electronic media and, later, the digital media causes new ways of cognition and action – the quest of involving and new modes of understanding the relation between art and [...] Read more.