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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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FACING THE ALIGNMENT PROBLEM THROUGH NIMBLE CHANGE-MANAGEMENT. LIMITATIONS OF LEGAL ENVIRONMENT IN COPING WITH DIGITAL AGENTS
Piotr BOŁTUĆ
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The Alignment Problem, asking how to align the goals of AGI with human in a long time-frame, assumes AGIs having ‘their’ goals. I view the alignment as a possibility, only when the human-AGI arrangement comes from the community, and it is not based primarily on controls, or laws. The sole way to create [...] Read more.
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DAVID AND GOLIATH. MEDIA IMAGE OF VOLODYMYR ZELENSKI AND VLADIMIR PUTIN BASED ON BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Marek SOKOŁOWSKI
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract Research objective: The aim of the study is to analyse media images of politicians presented in published book biographies of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenski, and the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.The research problem and methods: The study discusses the issue of creating the media [...] Read more.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION
Alfred SKORUPKA
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The article aims to briefly present the development of human civilization, mainly based on Jared Diamond's books, so that the reader can look at the history and present day of mankind in such a "encyclopedic" way. First, the concept of "civilization" is defined, then social life in animals (insects [...] Read more.
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HOW TO COMBAT CORRUPTION MORE EFFECTIVELY: NEW LEGAL PUSH FOR COMPLIANCE PROGRAMMES
Celina NOWAK
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract This article refers to the fight against corruption, analysed against the background of the new European Commission proposal for a Directive on combating corruption. The author points out the most significant provisions of the proposal, focusing in particular on Art. 18-2(b) which refers to compliance [...] Read more.
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PROTECTING THE LEGAL BASIS OF DEMOCRACY IN STATES OF CRISIS – SWEDISH CONSTITUTIONAL DILEMMAS
Małgorzata SKÓRZEWSKA-AMBERG
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The Swedish system of governance is based on a strongly established and safe-guarded separation of powers (the trias politica principle) with strong parliamentary control over the actions of the executive. Sweden's legal culture has also an extremely significant impact on the way laws are made, which [...] Read more.
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ABUSE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION AS A PROBLEM OF THE MOBILE SOCIETIES
Konrad BUCZKOWSKI
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The changes that have taken place over the last three decades in the development of technology and information technology have meant that, almost unnoticed, we as a society have become dependent on new communication solutions. The dependence of highly developed societies on new technologies means that [...] Read more.
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CRIME IN THE MEDIA - CRIMINOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Paulina WIKTORSKA
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract There have been many publications on the subject of the portrayal of crime in the media, both Polish and foreign, and it is not the author's purpose to cite and re-describe the conclusions of these studies and researches, but only to revise certain selected previous theories and empirical research in [...] Read more.
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CHANGES IN MARKET POWER OF SELECTED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN THE CONTEXT OF A GLOBAL BIOMEDICAL SHOCK
Mirosław GEISE, Aldona UZIĘBŁO
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract This article aims to draw the reader's attention to the speed and intensity of the changes taking place in selected companies originating from the pharmaceutical sector, which in recent years have been involved in re-search and development for the use of m-RNA vaccines against various types of cancer [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATION OF THE CHILD'S PRIVATE SPACE AS PERCEIVED BY PARENTS
MONIKA JUREWICZ, AGNIESZKA PAWLUK-SKRZYPEK
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The article focuses on issues related to the transformation of the child's private space as perceived by parents, including an analysis of the parents' definition of the concept of the child's space at preschool age, the extent and freedom of the child's co-creation of the space they inhabit and the [...] Read more.
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HUMANISTIC ASPECTS OF ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF TRANSFORMATION
Zdzisław SIROJĆ
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023,  Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The author presents selected humanistic concepts of business management that emerged in the conditions of transformation of modern societies, in particular their economy, at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. He claims that nothing stands in the way of further expanding the scope of humanistic [...] Read more.