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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
Journal article
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
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.
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SCENARIOS OF CAPITALISM IN POSTMODERN SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES (Z.BAUMAN, A.GIDDENS, R.SENNETT)
Małgorzata MOLĘDA-ZDZIECH
Futures – Visions, Interpretations and Narratives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 31 May 2013
Abstract The author compares the theoretical approaches to capitalism proposed by some principal researchers of postmodernity: Zygmunt Bauman, Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck and Scott Lash. In this context the author presents the concept of a “new culture of capitalism” invented by Richard Sennett. The “New culture [...] Read more.
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NEGATIVE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
Jan FAZLAGIĆ
Economy - Marketing: Looking for New Ideas
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 31 May 2013
Abstract The main purpose of accounting has always been delivering up-to-date , reliable and objective information regarding the assets and liabilities in a firm. The birth of the industrial era coincided with the development of modern accounting. In industrial enterprises the majority of assets were tangible [...] Read more.
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NEW MARKETING FORMS IN LOCAL INITIATIVE
Karolina DZIWAK
Economy - Marketing: Looking for New Ideas
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 31 May 2013
Abstract The Internet does not constitute a separate communication space any more. Partition between virtual and analogue reality disappears and marketing returns to its initial form of communication. Social media marketing is not a privilage but requirement for effective promotion based and depending not on [...] Read more.
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MARKETING – BETWEEN SCYLLA OF EXPECTATIONS AND CHARIBDIS OF INDICTMENTS
Lechosław GARBARSKI
Economy - Marketing: Looking for New Ideas
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 31 May 2013
Abstract During the last few decades, marketing has become a very important concept with a high level of efficiency. It is used by enterprises for commercial purposes and also by many non-for-profit organizations to solve contemporary social problems. Achieved successes inclines one to seek new solutions but [...] Read more.
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SOME REFLECTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Economy - Marketing: Looking for New Ideas
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
#bark
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 31 May 2013
Abstract This article contains some thoughts on issues located in the philosophy of economics. One issue is the dilemma of whether to distract the economy in the sense of logistics and of multiplication of many small organizations, or to focus it in large organizations - productive, commercial and service complexes [...] Read more.
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ANTINOMIES AND CHALLENGES OF THE POLISH TRANSFORMATION
Janusz GOLINOWSKI
Information - Communication - Politics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract The act of comparing normative aspirations of Poles to democracy with the course of the transformation process, emphasises contradictions and paradoxes associated with the transformation of a political system. The basis of these antinomies is comprised of the thesis of restrained institutional development [...] Read more.
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PUBLIC DISCOURSE AS A SUBSTITUTE TO POLITICAL REPRESENTATION – A PARAINSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACY
Wiktor SZEWCZAK
Information - Communication - Politics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract Representation has been one of the foundations of democratic systems throughout the ages. Since the invention of indirect democracy these two phenomena have been closely related. In the article, a traditional model of political representation is examined, and it is stated that it no longer provides [...] Read more.
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DIALECTICS OF THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY
Edward KAROLCZUK
Information - Communication - Politics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract In the term democracy, there is a contradiction between the businesses of the majority and the minority of citizens. In antagonistic societies, this contradiction took dramatic forms. To solve this problem, officials were drawn, a plural voting system was used, new political institutions came into being [...] Read more.
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HOMO WIKIPEDICUS AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Magdalena PIŁAT-BORCUCH, Artur BORCUCH
Information - Communication - Politics
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract Contemporary e-mails, blogs, online dictionaries and encyclopedias are very important sources of obtaining information. Information exchange between Internet users is growing exponentially. Social media such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia contributed to this phenomenon. In this way, the [...] Read more.
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BODY - SPACE - INTERACTIVITY. ABOUT THE USER EXPERIENCE IN KINETIC GAMES
Barbara ORZEŁ
Media in Transition Process
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (76-77) 2013, Publication date: 30 May 2013
Abstract The main aim of this article is to determine the influence of kinetic games on the area of new media reality. In the whole history of console games, we can mark a very special moment, that can be called: "the kinetic turn". This milestone has changed the way we thought about the "classical" idea of " [...] Read more.