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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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THE SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE ABAOUT SECURITY IN THE FUTURE
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI
Transformacje cywilizacyjne – między wiedzą, wrażliwością i wyobraźnią socjologiczną
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
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 December 2021
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
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 27 December 2021
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 December 2021
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
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 27 December 2021
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.
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FIELD RESEARCH AND PREPARATION OF PUBLICATIONS AS AN EXAMPLE OF ACTIVATING YOUTH AS PART OF REGIONAL EDUCATION ORGANIZED IN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS (on the Example of the Culture Researchers’ Club at the Municipal Culture Center in Czechowice-Dziedzice)
Agnieszka PRZYBYŁA-DUMIN
Analysis of Contemporary Societies
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 26 December 2021
Abstract The aim of the article is to present the activities of the Culture Researchers’ Club organized at the Municipal Cultural Center in Czechowice-Dziedzice, which is guided by several important assumptions: regional and intercultural education, preparation of young people for a deeper understanding of culture [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATIONS OF TOURISM IN THE SECOND DECADE OF THE XXI CENTURY. BASED ON AN ANALYSIS OF POLISH SOCIETY
Ewa BĄCZYŃSKA
Analysis of Contemporary Societies
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 26 December 2021
Abstract This paper examines changes in tourism and main factors determining them in the years 2010 - 2020. The conducted research concerns not only polish society but also the generally applicable theoretical background of the spatial mobility phenomenon as well as explanation and typology of tourism. The main [...] Read more.
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SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CHILDREN WITH PARENTS ABROAD. THE CASE OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Angela MOCANU
Analysis of Contemporary Societies
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 26 December 2021
Abstract The author analyses the social-psychological problems of children with parents abroad on the example of Republic of Moldova. The phenomenon became widespread in the early 2000s. In search of a better life, the parents decided to work abroad and to leave their children with grandparents or other relatives [...] Read more.
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NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND TRANSFORATION OF ACCOUNTANT’S PROFESSION
Anna MATUSZEWSKA
Impact of New Technologies
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (111) 2021,  Publication date: 26 December 2021
Abstract Digital transformation in today’s global economy is a driving force of the future sustainable organizations. Duties assigned to accountants are also evolving dynamically. Duties strictly related to making records are more and more often carried out by technical and IT tools, whereas data analysis, economic [...] Read more.