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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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NETWORK SOCIETIES IN CONDITIONS OF EROSION OF THE CURRENT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ORDER

Janusz GOLINOWSKI

Technological Conditions and Effects of e-Development

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 3 June 2018

Abstract Presented article discusses the subject of the modernising practices’ crisis, which arises at the foundations of political order. Technical development of information transmission, transport, telecommunication and computerisation; globalisation of financial flow, increase of amount of foreign investors [...] Read more.

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CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EBUSINESS IN THE WORLD

Mirosław Geise

Technological Conditions and Effects of e-Development

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 3 June 2018

Abstract The purpose of the study is explanation of micro and macroeconomic conditioning for development of the e-economy in the world. Simultaneity, intensity and multi-directionality of many economic processes caused that the existing balance of power in the global sector of new technologies and development [...] Read more.

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THE WORLD IN CRISIS OR IN POST-CRISIS ERA? AN ATTEMPT AT IDENTIFYING MAIN TRENDS

Kazimierz KRZYSZTOFEK

The Future of Civilization – Transformations of the World

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 3 June 2018

Abstract The article is meant to identify and describe the six trends which I find essential from the point of view of shaping the emerging world. Unfortunately the real world cannot be put into a lab in order to measure the values of forces’ vectors and assess the resultant direction. Probablythis will never [...] Read more.

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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILIZATION

Wiesław SZTUMSKI

The Future of Civilization – Transformations of the World

Publication language: Polish

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Transformations No. 1-2 (96-97) 2018 Publication date: 3 June 2018

Abstract The article contains reflections on the future of civilization in general and possible tendencies of further development of our Western civilization. Civilization is multidimensional and many factors affect its shape and development, but here one limits only to two important: knowledge and technology [...] Read more.

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MONOGRAPHY REVIEW ENTITLED: “POTENTIAL AND RELATIONS OF STRENGTHS IN DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY“PUBLISED BY POLTEXT, WARSAW 2018 P. 274 UNDER SCIENCE EDITION, BY PROF L.W. ZACHERA

Włodzimierz CHOJNACKI

Reviews

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

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MODERN FORMS OF PREPARATION TO RETIREMENTSELECTED RESULTS OF THE ERASMUS+ PROJECT BALL BE ACTIVE THROUGH LIFELONG LEARNING

Monika Dorota ADAMCZYK

Transformation Challenges (selected)

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

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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HOW MONOCULTURE ECONOMIES WORK IN THE CONDITIONS OF GROWING TENSIONS IN NATURAL RESOURCES MARKETS

Mirosław GEISE, Maria Ewa SZATLACH

Transformation Challenges (selected)

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The article is an attempt to verify the concept of Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew M. Warner`s about „the curse of natural resources”1. According to the researchers, if the country has abundant natural resources that create a monoculture structure of economy, it reduces the supply of capital needed to run [...] Read more.

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THE POST-FACTORY: ON THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PLACE

Aleksandra KUNCE

Transformation Challenges (selected)

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The author of this interpretation focuses on the post-factory from the anthropological point of view. How can we transform the post-factory into a place? The post-factory is a place of unique reconciliation. It is where a ritual has taken place, one involving not only the material aspect of existence [...] Read more.

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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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TENDENCIES OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GEORGIA IN THE EPOCH OF GLOBALIZATION

M.S. KVARATSKHELIA

National Cases Augmented

Publication language: English

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Transformations No. 3-4 (94-95) 2017 Publication date: 30 November 2017

Abstract The modern post - communist epoch is characterized by special properties. The unprecedented pace of the scientific and technological revolution in various spheres of public life has caused the expansion, change and diversity of the phenomenon of globalization. This, naturally, gave rise to various points [...] Read more.