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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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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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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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ARTIFICAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE FROM PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW
Alfred SKORUPKA
Transformacje cyfrowe – potencjały zmian
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022,  Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract Some scholars predict that the Artificial General Intelligence, if man can create it, could rule the world and mankind. The author of the article considers this problem from a philosophical point of view. The article begins with a brief outline of AI issues; then, the author deals with the ethics that [...] Read more.
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FUTUROLOGICAL REFLECTION ON THE BASIS OF THE IDEA OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Transformacje cyfrowe – potencjały zmian
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022,  Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The article contains the author's thoughts on what awaits humanity in the near future, probably still this century. It looks dramatic. Despite the warnings of ecologists and the idea of sustainable development, people continue to destroy irresponsibly the natural environment and other species of fauna [...] Read more.
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A REALISTIC UTOPIA. TOWARDS DIGITAL COMPETITION OF GREAT POWERS
Janusz GOLINOWSKI
Transformacje cyfrowe – potencjały zmian
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 1 (112) 2022,  Publication date: 30 March 2022
Abstract The global innovation landscape is changing rapidly due to the growing importance of digitalization, intangible investment and the emergence of China. The purpose of the article is to present the specifics of economic and political rivalry of states with power status. Globalisation of financial flow [...] Read more.
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THE DIGITAL TURN: A DISPERSED SOCIETY
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK
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 author analyses the phenomena that give dynamics to the socio-economic processes towards their differentiation of modern societies. He characterises the most important social trends in selected historical periods, starting from the first industrial revolution. The author poses the fundamental question [...] Read more.
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THE SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE ABAOUT SECURITY IN THE FUTURE
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
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 As citizens, we live in a globalized world where we experience the risks and dangers of cultural and climate change, decarbonisation, terrorism, and hybrid wars and population migrations. They generate many existential, cultural and civilization challenges. They are accompanied by conflicts and social [...] 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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TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION – PEDAGOGICAL EXPLORATIONS ON THE BORDERLANDS
Marek REMBIERZ
Varia: Interpretations
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 27 February 2022
Abstract The article points out relations between sources and transformations of Polish intercultural pedagogy and variously understood borderland contexts, because - paradoxically - borderlands are situated in the centre of pedagogical interests. Borderlands are situated in many ways in the centre of Polish [...] Read more.
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Jurisdictional arbitrage vs market efficiency: Who controls investment funds in the EU?
Krzysztof Adam GÓRSKI
Varia: Interpretations
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 27 February 2022
Abstract This article offers a broad theory on delegation arrangements existing between investment funds and third-party professional service providers under the European Union law. Limited delegation of portfolio management and risk management functions generally leads to an increase in operational efficiency [...] Read more.
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The Perilous Transformations of Regulatory Governance
Waldemar HOFF
Varia: Interpretations
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 27 February 2022
Abstract Recent decades have witnessed an invasion non-state regulations, a process usually accepted in the academia as beneficial and inevitable historical development. This article claims it is neither. Once a culture of denying states their primacy in rule-making has been established, it will act as a centrifugal [...] Read more.
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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WOMEN SERVING A CUSTODIAL SENTENCE AS A RISK FACTOR IN EDUCATING PRISONERS
Eva VÁŠOVÁ
Analysis of Contemporary Societies
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 27 February 2022
Abstract The aim of the paper is to acquaint the reader with a factor that can significantly influence the educational work of prison staff. The question is how to deal with such a situation if a special educator or instructor encounters it in practice. The author underlines that even a seemingly obscure topic [...] Read more.