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TECHNOLOGICAL CONFLICTS IN RISK SOCIETY. LOCAL PROTEST AGAINST CONSTRUCTION OF A MOBILE PHONE TRANSMITTER - CASE STUDY

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Stankiewicz P.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2007
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issue 4(187)
87-116
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One of the consequences of the 'risk society' which, according to Ulrich Beck, replaces previous forms of social life is the emergence of new kinds of social conflicts. They focus on controversies about technological innovations, therefore they will be called here 'technological conflicts'. The question raised in this article concerns possibilities to regulate technological conflicts in situation when science and experts are unable to reach conclusions about risks which may be brought by introducing a given technology. Concepts as Ulrich Becks 'risk society' and Public Understanding of Science suggest two models of possible strategies of 'technological conflicts' regulation: an expert one and a participatory one. They have been used to analyze a local controversy concerning construction plans of a mobile phone company transmitter.
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THE MAIN ACTORS IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM (GWOT) AND THEIR SOCIAL NETWORKS, ALLOCATIVE AND AUTHORITATIVE RESOURCES (Hlavni akteri globalni valky proti terorismu (GWOT), jejich socialni site, alokativni a autoritativni zdroje)

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Eichler J.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2009
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vol. 41
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issue 5
457-484
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This study deals with the issue of global terrorism. It begins with Beck's description of a pattern of behaviour which is in contradiction with the interests of civilisation. Next, it evaluates Bush's choice between two flows of social capital and his GWOT strategy from the perspective of Giddens' concept of norms and resources. The encounter between the 43rd U.S. president and the al-Qaida chief is explained as a duel between a patron and a broker. The study goes on to provide a comparison of the main actors' social networks and social capital from 9/11/2001 up to the present. In the end, the author juxtaposes the U.S. direct strategic culture and the crafty and insidious culture of al-Qaida and its allied movements.
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