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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
Journal article
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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DO WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT AN ETHICS INTO AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Wojciech Jerzy BOBER
Impact of New Technologies
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are thought to be one of major solutions to the problem of traffic-related deaths (ca 1.25 million people worldwide per year). Unfortunately, this kind of technology is not expected to eliminate them completely. Therefore, researchers start to put questions about rules, including [...] Read more.
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REGULATING CIVILIAN-USE DRONES AND ROBOTS AS A SERIOUS HOMELAND SECURITY HAZARD
Maciek ZAJĄC
Impact of New Technologies
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Drones – platforms remotely controlled by humans – and robots – platforms designed to operate in fully autonomous mode most of the time – are quickly becoming quite ubiquitous throughout our society, bringing a promise of great economic advancement, much safer transport of goods and people and elimination [...] Read more.
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TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE SPHERES OF THE INTERNET AND CULTURE
Urszula ŻYDEK-BEDNARCZUK
Impact of New Technologies
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract The aim of the article is to show the transformations taking place in new media. The focus was on selected areas of the Internet. The changes and transformations brought about by new technologies also result in cultural transformations. The most dynamic phenomena include changes in scientific paradigms [...] Read more.
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SOCIETY OF E-CONTROL IN HYPERCONNECTED REALITY
Alina BETLEJ
Impact of New Technologies
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 January 2011
Abstract Author analyse the problem of transformation society of control into society of e-control in hyperconnected reality. The term is defined by calling to works of Foucault, Deleuze and Castells. Contemporary societies becomes more and more complicated and technologically based. The process of networking [...] Read more.
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EXPLORATION OF HUMAN DESIRES: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON FORESIGHT AND SOCIAL PLANNING
Waclaw A. KASPRZAK, Karol I. PELC
Questions about the Future
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract Distinction between human needs and desires is viewed as important subject for consideration in foresight, social planning and all other studies related to social change. Human desires are defined as expression of subjective wishes that are not always founded on rational principles or beneficial for [...] Read more.
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WHAT KIND OF HOMO WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE?
Wiesław SZTUMSKI
Questions about the Future
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017, Publication date: 30 November 2017
Abstract In the last decades, huge technological progress have created many kinds of human, depending on which of his features dominate over the other at a given stage of social evolution. Each of these kinds is treated like an ideal or a model of human. From the beginning, in the capitalist economy, the ideal [...] Read more.
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CULINARY CULTURE IN THE INTERNET
Magdalena ZYTKA
Reviews
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 28 May 2017
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PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: ANTINOMIES AND LIMITS OF THE MODERN EXPERTS’ PRACTICES
Maciej POPŁAWSKI
New Relations and Approaches in Mecical Care
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 28 May 2017
Abstract The aim of this article is to indicate and discuss some antinomies and limits of contemporary expert systems taking psychiatry and therapy as the examples. New experts which recently appeared next to traditional authorities of soul and life as much as the complexity and ambiguity caused by their coexistence [...] Read more.
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PARTNER, CLIENT OR PATIENT? AUTONOMY OF PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN AND MODELS OF MEDICINE
Filip BARDZIŃSKI
New Relations and Approaches in Mecical Care
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 28 May 2017
Abstract In this paper, I will argue in favor of a dire need to re-evaluate the classic model of physician-patient relation, based on the notion of paternalism. By observing negative and unwanted consequences, coming from both the theoretical attempts to develop more symmetrical models of such relations, as [...] Read more.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF SUBJECTS AND ISSUES PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES IN THE YEARS 2001-2015 AND THEIR AVAILABILITY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
Stanisława KUREK-KOKOCIŃSKA
Information in Transformations of the Society
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 28 May 2017
Abstract The article focuses on the bibliographic materials and bibliographies of current humanities (linguistics, rhetoric, philosophy, Biblical Studies, Political Science), published in the years 2001 to 2016 on the pages of scientific periodicals („Poradnik Językowy”, „Forum Artis Rhetoricae. Kwartalnik poświęcony [...] Read more.