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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
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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THE TIME OF INFO-FREEDOM. ABOUT CONTINUATION OF THE MYTHS OF THE INDIVIDUAL INDEPENDENCE AND THE EFFECTIVE SOCIAL LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Tadeusz MICZKA
Information Society – Problems and Challenges
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract While recalling that freedom as one of the most important philosophical problems is linked to all the spheres and dimensions of human life and to attempts to reconcile the individual independence and social rights, I account for the deepening of the difficulties of its determination within contemporary [...] Read more.
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SYSTEM OF FUTURE EXPLORATION IN THE PROCESS OF FORESIGHT
Ewa STOLAREWSKA
Methodological Inquiries
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract The aim of this article is to present a conception of a model for future exploration in the process of foresight. The model was projected as a hybrid dynamic system consisting of methodical modules of specific functions. Risk and uncertainty conditions were indicated as the model’s functioning environment [...] Read more.
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PERPETUUM MOBILE: FROM COPERNICUS AND THE CYCLIC MAYAN CALENDAR TO THE COSMIC COMMUNICATION (AND SO ON)
Radosław SAJNA
Methodological Inquiries
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract Although the theories about globalization are relatively new, the process could be hardly considered as new. After Columbus’s famous journeys, that finally united two hemispheres, another famous person, a Polish scientist N. Copernicus, “moved the Earth" (and “stopped the Sun"). One can say that the [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE DESIGN CATEGORY AND THE ORIGIN OF "UNBOXING RITUAL"
Barbara ORZEŁ
Methodological Inquiries
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract How has the Apple Company changed the design category and indirectly our culture? – that is the major question of this article. There is no doubt, that Apple has very precisely responded to Paul Rand’ words: “Design is Everything. Everything!"- it has transformed the way we experience media – now it [...] Read more.
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SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO AN EXPLANATION THE CYBERPOLITICS
Filip PIERZCHALSKI
Methodological Inquiries
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract The article undertakes the analysis of virtual reality and the phenomenon of cyberpolitics from the standpoint of the semantic approach. Hence, the article analyses the following issues: the notion of technological vitalism and his implication to a social life (especially such processes as: dromological [...] Read more.
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FROMM’S CULTURAL PSYCHOANALYSIS AS VARIANT OF INTERPRETIVIST APPROACH
Maciej BACHRYJ-KRZYWAŹNIA
Methodological Inquiries
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract The aim of this article is twofold. In the first section the author presents the short philosophical debate and the assumptions that the interpretivist approach stems from. The main subject of this dispute is the nature and scientific status of social science in comparison with natural science. Two [...] Read more.
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MONODISCIPLINARITY OR INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND MULTIDISCIPLINARITY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE – POSSIBILITIES AND BOUNDARIES
Eugeniusz PONCZEK
Methodological Inquiries
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract The question of crossing the boundary of political science by a research scien tist and entering completely new research areas, which involves accepting a new look at "the world of politics", its explantation and narration in a multi disciplinary way, is becoming essential. Such "transgressions" are [...] Read more.
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FUZZY WORLD. THE PROBLEM OF BORDERS
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Methodological Inquiries
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (68-69) 2011, Publication date: 12 May 2011
Abstract Considerations relate to the phenomenon of increasing blurring boundaries in the modern world. Thisoccurs in nature, due to the penetration of the deep level structure of matter and the possibility of more accurate measurements. Their inaccurateness results in a world that seems to be discontinuous, [...] Read more.