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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
Journal article
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
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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RECONFIGURATIONS IN THE WORLD SYSTEM – BETWEEN THE OLD DRIVING FORCES AND NEW NETWORKS
Lech W. ZACHER
Global Problems – Future – Politics – Values
Publication language: English
Journal article
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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THE REMINISCENCE OF YOUTHFUL REBELLIOUSNESS, THAT IS WHAT PAWEŁ KUKIZ WANTS
Paweł MALENDOWICZ
Transformations of Politics - Controversies, Mythization
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract Paweł Kukiz is a Polish musician, actor and newspaper columnist. He became famous for his psychedelic punk rock music pieces that were performed during the music festival in Jarocin. This city was the symbol of youthful rebelliousness in the eighties in Poland. Kukiz was also a lead singer in a popular [...] Read more.
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RELATIONS AMONG EUROPEANIZATION AND THE PUBLIC POLITICS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE POLITICS OF COHESION
Tomasz HOFFMANN
Public space - politics - administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract The article concentrates around the exhibition of issues of concerning relations among Europeanization and the public politics on the example of the politics of the cohesion. The author defines concepts of Europeanization, the public politics and the politics of the cohesion and also discusses resulting [...] Read more.
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PROFESSIONALIZATION IN THE RELATIONS OF DISPOSAL GROUP WITH A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI, Janusz ŚWINIARSKI
Public space - politics - administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract The authors of presented text performed the analysis of negative social phenomena possessing a universal character, occurring in Poland. The process of their appearance is defined as creation and improvement of partiocracy formation as a new formation of democracy. Its main attributes focus on overtaking [...] Read more.
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THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE QUIDDITY OF PRIVATIZATION OF PRIVATE ASSETS
Edward KAROLCZUK
Public space - politics - administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract The public assets were originally dominant. However during the process of historical development public assets are being transformed into private assets by bringing them under the private ownership. In every case the relations between the public assets and private property depend both on the state of [...] Read more.
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DOES A PUBLIC SPACE EXIST?
Barbara GŁYDA-ŻYDEK
Public space - politics - administration
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 24 May 2017
Abstract The author poses the question of urban public space in which coexist and about which jointly decide representatives of different social groups. General access to space and the possibility of its formation are for the author the center of the public space definition. In the context of the theory of power [...] Read more.
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RESTRICTIONS AND BARRIERS IN PREDICTING THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY
Halina ŚWIEBODA
Security Issues
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 23 May 2017
Abstract General idea of what may be, is better than nothing (...). If wrong - it's still beneficial ", because we gain time for appropriate action. This is particularly important if the risks, events, events are dealt with in the context of national security. Forecasting has many supporters as well as opponents [...] Read more.
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HOMO RETICULUS IN THE CHANGING WORLD
Piotr SIENKIEWICZ
Security Issues
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 23 May 2017
Abstract The article presents a model of the contemporary man, who is living and taking challenges within the frames of the information society perceived as a networked one. Homo reticulus is seen as a subject, facing new challenges and threats, local and global ones, as a result of the accelerated development [...] Read more.
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THE BUDGET OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND POLAND – RETRO- AND PROSPECTIVE APPROACH
Dorota MURZYN
Economic Challenges of Modern Transformations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 23 May 2017
Abstract Summary: In the 12 years of EU membership, Poland paid to the EU budget of 39.1 bln EUR, while flows from the EU to our country (both public entities and private, which implemented projects co-financed by various EU funds) amounted to more than 125.7 bln EUR. This means that Poland has achieved a positive [...] Read more.
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WORK AND POVERTY - THE PHENOMENON OF WORKING POOR IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Katarzyna CYMBRANOWICZ
Economic Challenges of Modern Transformations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 23 May 2017
Abstract The article discusses the working poor phenomenon. This phenomenon is associated with on the one hand – with the labor market, on the other - with poverty. It is an interesting object of study, because now in the European Union more and more people even though it is included in the basic social institution [...] Read more.
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UTILITARIAN ASSUMPTIONS IN INTERGENERATIONAL INVESTMENT APPRAISAL
Monika FOLTYN-ZARYCHTA
Economic Challenges of Modern Transformations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 23 May 2017
Abstract The paper analyses three basic features of utilitarianism: welfarism, sum-ranking and consequentialism which form the theoretical basis for economic net present value (costbenefit analysis decision criterion) for appraisal of intergenerational investments. The results show that the features are not [...] Read more.