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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
Journal article
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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LOST IN SPACE? INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES TOWARDS GLOBAL MIGRATIONS: RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL COHESION AND CAPITAL
Krystyna M. BŁESZYŃSKA
Socio-Cultural Transformations: Stories and Cases
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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CHANGES IN LIVELIHOOD PATTERN OF INTERNAL MIGRANTS IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF DHAKA CITY
S.M. MOSHAROF
Socio-Cultural Transformations: Stories and Cases
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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MAROONED DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY MARINERS’ ABORIGINAL CONNECTIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA: THE UNTOLD STORY
Nonja PETERS, Dora MARINOVA, Glen STASIUK
Socio-Cultural Transformations: Stories and Cases
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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DEATH – „I LIKE”
Bogdan ZELER
Information Society – Aspects and Dimensions
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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GAMES WE LIVE BY
Monika WOJTAS-TARNOWSKA
Information Society – Aspects and Dimensions
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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THE ROLE OF RETENTION AND DATA ANALYSIS IN THE UBICOMP PARADIGM
Anna MAJ
Information Society – Aspects and Dimensions
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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PARTICULAR RATIONALITY PERSPECTIVES IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Tadeusz MICZKA
Information Society – Aspects and Dimensions
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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NON-KNOWLEDGE, RISK AND TECHNOLOGY IN A NETWORKED WORLD – TOWARDS THE FUTURE
Alina BETLEJ
Information Society – Aspects and Dimensions
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (82-83) 2014, Publication date: 29 November 2014
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SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF UNETHICAL PRACTICES OF SPORTS POLICY DURING THE COLD WAR ERA
Michał Marcin KOBIERECKI
Responsibility - Ethics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (80-81) 2014, Publication date: 26 May 2014
Abstract Cold War was a time of a comprehensive rivalry between two blocks of states led by the USA and the Soviet Union. The confrontation had various dimensions, and one of them was sport, which most of all could be used for the sake of political propaganda. Winning over athletes representing a hostile ideology [...] Read more.
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BETWEEN PATERNALISM AND AUTONOMY OF THE PATIENT. THE ETHICAL DIMENSION IN TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATION
Maria Teresa MISIK
Responsibility - Ethics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (80-81) 2014, Publication date: 26 May 2014
Abstract What the presented article refers to is the contemporary discussion on models and patterns of the relations between the doctor and the patient. Especially in medical ethics, changes in these relations are discussed and called for. Critical analyses of paternalistic relations will be presented as well [...] Read more.