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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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PROGRAMMES OF INTELLIGENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE EU - TECHNICAL AND SEMANTIC ASPECTS
Heinrich BADURA
Innovation – creation, effects, evaluations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017,  Publication date: 22 May 2017
Abstract The dominating role of technology within the development processes of the European Union concerning it’s framework programmes and especially science and research is clearly evident. The terminology which is applied in this context attributes to the relevant programmes and their editors (in this case [...] Read more.
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ACTIVE AGING AS AN ELEMENT OF MODERN APPROACH TO THE PROCESS OF PREPARATION TO RETIREMENT
Monika ADAMCZYK
Socio-Political Transformations
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract Alongside with the development of social activity of older people, the process of increasing the educational activity of this group should follow. This type of activity makes it possible to not only to broaden knowledge and acquire new skills and competencies, but also to update the skills or knowledge [...] Read more.
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THE IDEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AFTER 2004
Olga BRUSYLOVSKA
Socio-Political Transformations
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The article explains the role of nationalism and liberalism in the modern ideological transformation of the post-communist countries in the South-Eastern Europe. The author emphasizes that the processes of globalization and European integration didn’t prevent a strengthening of the nationalist parties [...] Read more.
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“IT’S LIKE A WALK IN THE PARK” - ON WHY ARE WALKING SIMULATORS SO CONTROVERSIAL
Paweł GRABARCZYK
Man and Nature – Changing Relations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The paper is devoted to controversies in computer games studies connected with game classification and characteristics. Controversies on walking simulators are discussed in depth; also historical roots of these games and their ergodicity. Read more.
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HUMAN BEING AND NATURE IN RADICAL TRANSFORMATION, OR WHY WE STILL VISIT DERELICT PARKS IN SILESIA
Aleksandra KUNCE
Man and Nature – Changing Relations
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The author addresses the problem of the philosophy of the “derelict park”. The reflections are organised around Fazaniec – border park, established in the Upper Silesia in mid-nineteenth century by count Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch. A local human being lives and constructs his or her life off the beaten [...] Read more.
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INDIAN SOCIOLOGY: INDIGENIZATION AND CHALLENGES
B.K. NAGLA
Research for Practices
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The topic of the paper is the discourse present in the Indian Sociology refering to indigenization of the social sciences. After making conceptual clarifications the author presents the context of the discourse and analyzes Indigenizing Approaches to Research, Indigenization of Indian Sociology and [...] Read more.
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D. UZNADZE’S THE PLACE AND THE ROLE OF THE THEORY OF "ATTITUDE" IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF THE ADMINISATRATION AND MANAGEMEN
Vazha KAKABADZE
Research for Practices
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract In the presented scientific research Georgian psychologist D.Uznadze's theory of "attitude" firstly is related with management an administration system. This article emphasizes that healthy human behavior and feelings are not only a reaction on the for influence over environment. The environment has [...] Read more.
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THE ISSUE OF THE SUBJECT IN POST-MODERNITY. DISCUSSING THE CHANGE IN THINKING ABOUT THE SUBJECT
Monika MICZKA-PAJESTKA
Research for Practices
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The following article considers and analyzes the issue of the subject and subjectivity emerging from the changing reality. It identifies and examines the areas of the formation of the socio-cultural space, inter alia that regarding language, experience, symbolism and imagery, as well as values important [...] Read more.
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CODES OF ART&SCIENCE: CULTURAL MEANINGS AND IDEOLOGY OF THE AESTHETICS VERSUS USER EXPERIENCE FIELD RESEARCH
Michał DERDA-NOWAKOWSKI
Philosophying on Art And Aesthetics
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The contemporary reflection on interactive art becomes insufficient when a researcher is not able to test an artwork and check their theses in cognitive process. Exploring interactive art should therefore include user experience as the most important element of research process. Thus, the significance [...] Read more.
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FROM CYBERBRICOLEURS THROUGH CYBERLEADERS TO CYBORGS: EMERGING ARTISTIC STRATEGIES AND POSSIBLE TACTICS OF RECEPTION
Anna MAJ
Philosophying on Art And Aesthetics
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (90-91) 2016,  Publication date: 20 November 2016
Abstract The main interest of the paper is to show how the roles of contemporary new media artists are evolving towards the spheres which do not necessarily belong to Art as traditionally understood. The Author analyses strategies which characterise the research and experimental factor (in its scientific meaning [...] Read more.