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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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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.
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POLISH POLITICAL PARTIES TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NEED TO INTRODUCE FORMAL CLIMATE EDUCATION
Piotr SWACHA, Zbigniew M. KARACZUN
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The most important factor influencing the possibility of interposition the climate education to school curricula is the attitude of political circles to climate issue. In order to define the outlined problem, we decided to analyze party programmes from the years 2005-2019, both in terms of the parties [...] Read more.
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COMMON FEATURES OF THE PROCESS OF INFLUENCING YOUNG PEOPLE USED BY SPORTS COACH AND TEACHER
Małgorzata MAJKOWSKA
Publication language: English
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Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract This paper presents characteristics of the upbringing process used by the sports coach and the teacher, which are in line with the ideas of the environmental up-bringing system, which creates favorable conditions for the multilateral and continuous learning process of the individual student and the [...] Read more.
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CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN POLISH AND GERMAN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE – SELECTED THREADS
Ewa PRZYBYLSKA, Danuta WAJSPRYCH
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract This article reflects on the shape of contemporary citizenship education in Po-land, against the background of the characteristics of political/citizenship education in the Federal Republic of Germany. Concomitantly addressed are the questions about the opportunities for development and threats to civic [...] Read more.
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DIFFICULT SITUATIONS AND WAYS OF DEALING WITH THEM BY STUDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Ewa SKRZETUSKA, Agnieszka ROWICKA
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (119) 2023, Publication date: 29 December 2023
Abstract The article presents students' opinions on the experiences they encountered during distance learning during the pandemic and lockdown. These opinions were selected from the statements of 164 students, over 50% of whom came from villages and small towns. The majority of respondents were women. The descriptions [...] Read more.