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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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RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN RURAL COMMUNITY AGAINST URBAN BACKGROUND
Krystyna LEŚNIAK-MOCZUK
Zmiana społeczna, pandemia- jako kategorie analizy współczesnego społeczeństwa
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract Religion has played many roles in human life for centuries, and its functions have been subject to change with the development of society. In the Polish society, the Roman Catholic Church is an extremely important and influential institution, strongly linked to the national identity. The aim of this [...] Read more.
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PROCESS PHILOSOPHY IN THE LIGHT OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Alfred SKORUPKA
Zmiana społeczna, pandemia- jako kategorie analizy współczesnego społeczeństwa
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract The article discusses the basic assumptions of the process philosophy and the basic assumptions of change management. The author claims that both disciplines – philosophy and management can be complementary because they deal with similar problems from different perspectives. The process philosophy that [...] Read more.
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A BASIC HOPE AS A PREDICTOR RESPONSES TO CHANGES CAUSED BY SARS-COV-2
Monika JUREWICZ, Agnieszka PAWLUK-SKRZYPEK
Zmiana społeczna, pandemia- jako kategorie analizy współczesnego społeczeństwa
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract The article focuses on issues related to the experience of a pandemic as a difficult situation, including the analysis of how time is perceived and managed by young people studying before and during the pandemic, and the level of basic hope of the respondents (according to E. Erikson's assumptions). [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION FROM NATIONAL STATES FOR THE STAGE FEDERALIZATION
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
Zmiana społeczna, pandemia- jako kategorie analizy współczesnego społeczeństwa
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract In the area of profound changes aimed at federalization of power and a new division of powers in the European Union, the most visible asymmetry is a certain asymmetry in the number and content of publications by authors from Western Europe and Poland. An important catalyst of the need for the transformation [...] Read more.
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ON THE MARGINS OF THE PANDEMIC. A GLOSS ON THE DIGITAL EXCLUSION OF OLDER PEOPLE
Violetta KRAWCZYK-WASILEWSKA
Zmiana społeczna, pandemia- jako kategorie analizy współczesnego społeczeństwa
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract The aim of this article is to draw attention to the total or partial digital exclusion of older people, who make up almost 20% of the Polish population. This issue became painfully apparent especially during the COVID-19 pandemic due to epidemiological orders and procedures based on digital techno-logy [...] Read more.
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PERSONNEL AND STRUCTURAL SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT SHAPING CONTEMPORARY SAFETY CULTURE
Barbara WIŚNIEWSKA-PAŹ
Wiedza, kultura i wartości w społeczeństwie cyfrowym- konteksty teoretyczne
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract Threats have become a (differentiam specificam) in the contemporary life of individual and collective entities. The sources of the contemporary instability, liquidity and indeterminacy are worth looking for in in the progressive deficit of basic (ethical) values that are exemplified in the existence [...] Read more.
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THE ESSENCE AND CAUSES OF DISTURBANCES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY IN THE PERIOD OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Mirosław GEISE
Wiedza, kultura i wartości w społeczeństwie cyfrowym- konteksty teoretyczne
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract The digital transformation of the world in the first two decades of the 21st century took place in an unstable and deteriorating macroeconomic environment. The macroeconomic imbalances recorded in many countries revealed serious barriers to further socioeconomic development. The article assumes that [...] Read more.
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CULTURE, EDUCATION AND VALUES IN COMPARISON TO PROBLEMS OF GLOBAL CONVERGENCY
Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA
Wiedza, kultura i wartości w społeczeństwie cyfrowym- konteksty teoretyczne
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract Article deliberates over problems of global convergency, including the issue of multiplicity in the perspective of creation of one global world. It ponders their meaning for changes in formation of culture, education and their inherent values. Author states questions on culture, education and values [...] Read more.
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RECOMPOSITION IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL THE FRAGMENTATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
Wiedza, kultura i wartości w społeczeństwie cyfrowym- konteksty teoretyczne
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022
Abstract The article attempts to present an outline of interdisciplinary knowledge in the field of long-term changes taking place in digital societies. The focus was mainly on the goals, causes and effects of recomposition in the global configuration dimension. In the digital age, societies are most interested [...] Read more.
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NOWE MEDIA TOTALNE – INTRUZ W NASZYM DOMACH
Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK
Wiedza, kultura i wartości w społeczeństwie cyfrowym- konteksty teoretyczne
Publication language: Polish
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Transformations No. 2 (113) 2022, Publication date: 30 June 2022