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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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ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN THE PORTRAIT OF MODERN UNIVERSITIES

Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI

Social and Educational Challenges and Solutions

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018 Publication date: 7 December 2018

Abstract In many well-developed states, there is an evident determination in undertaking trials of identifying and defining problems as well as institutional-organizational needs in developing educational outposts to satisfy rising demands on the part of: state power, academic environment including labor market [...] Read more.

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TRANSFORMATIONS OF URBAN SOCIAL SPACES: TOWARDS METROPOLITAN STRUCTURES IN NETWORK SOCIETY?

Katarzyna KWIATOSZ

Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018 Publication date: 7 December 2018

Abstract Networking becomes a universal feature of modern technical civilization. The development of new information and communication technologies affects the transformation of social ties, social structures, values, norms and principles functioning in the network society. New technologies and the ongoing process [...] Read more.

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THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTHCARE

Ewa M. KWIATKOWSKA

Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018 Publication date: 7 December 2018

Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICT) aimed at improving the standard of the healthcare services are defined as e-health. Introduction of an e-health should improve the quality and access to healthcare services. At the same time sector effectiveness should increase. The use of ICT in this [...] Read more.

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THE MAIN FACTORS OF THE DIGITALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY

Natalja GZHIBOVSKA, Ilvija GZHIBOVSKA

Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018 Publication date: 7 December 2018

Abstract Today, no one will talk about the prerequisites of the world digital revolution. Because it is already happening. Today, more or less every person, to one degree or another, uses gadgets and modern digital services, ranging from social networks, television and entertainment, ending with public services [...] Read more.

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SOCIAL ECONOMY AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Anastasiia SIMAKHOVA

Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018 Publication date: 7 December 2018

Abstract Relevance of development of the digital economy in the global world is determined by the need to consider its relationship with the social economy. All developed countries of the world have a strong social basis. In spite of various models of social economy, the well-being of the population, social [...] Read more.

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EXPECTATIONS, DISAPPOINTMENTS AND HOPES RELATED TO INFORMATION SOCIETY (A FUTURIST APPROACH)

Wiesław SZTUMSKI

Informalization and Digitalization of Economies and Societies – General and Practical Issues

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018 Publication date: 7 December 2018

Abstract We live in times of building an information society and of delighting with the expected benefits after its completion. The social masses usually perceive superficially the effects of the development of the information society. They enjoy that because of computerization, robotization and dissemination [...] Read more.

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CONSTRUCTIVE AND COMMUNICATION ASPECTSOF SHAPING SECURITY CULTURE AT SCHOOL

Iwona BŁASZCZAK, Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI

In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 6 June 2018

Abstract Recent years are a period of changes in the polish educational system not only concerning the ones in structures and functions of schools, but also considering the implementation of new standards of educating, new aims as well as requirements for the scientifically-educational staff. The culture of [...] Read more.

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ELEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW VERSUS THE ANTI-CRISIS INITIATIVE FOR EUROPE IN THE POST-HUMANIST WORLD

Jadwiga SEBESTA, Eugeniusz SZYMIK

In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 6 June 2018

Abstract The present-day ideological decline entails a serious crisis of values, taking place against the background of civilisation changes. The exceptional economic achievements in the developed countries clash with the destabilisation of a thought which diverges from any coherent vision of a human being and [...] Read more.

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POST-NATIONAL REVOLUTION AS A SOURCE OF POLILTICAL CONFLICTS IN THE EU COUNTRIES

Jakub POTULSKI

In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 6 June 2018

Abstract Processes related to the formation of the so-called Information society affects the transformation of social structure in highly developed countries. Alongside these processes, new social divisions and new areas of political conflicts are emerging. The arrival of the "third wave of civilisation" is [...] Read more.

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POLITICAL GELOTOLOGY

Marek SOKOŁOWSKI, Wojciech Krzysztof SZALKIEWICZ

In Search of New Approaches and Interpretations

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 6 June 2018

Abstract Humour and laughter with it have been for many years the subject of research by many scholars who for centuries have been thinking about their essence and their function in social life because of the important and diverse role that it plays in the everyday life of individuals and groups. One of the [...] Read more.