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Информационно-технологическая революция: социальный аспект

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Чумаков А. Н.

Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

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2012

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issue 2(4)

47-52

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According to the author, the development of scientific and technological revolution has increased the role of manipulation in society: handling technologies used in particular for advertising, political campaigns, armed conflicts, acts of terrorism as well as ideological wars.

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From Scientific Social Management to Neoliberal Governmentality? Czechoslovak Sociology and Social Research on the Way from Authoritarianism to Liberal Democrac, 1969-1989

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Kopeček M.

Stan Rzeczy

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2017

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issue 2(13) Sociology Under State Socialism

171-196

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This paper focuses on official Marxist sociology and social science research in Czechoslovakia as one of the central “disciplines of governance” in the 1970s and 1980s. With most of the first-class practitioners being purged after 1968, the study pays little attention to the intrinsic value of sociological production in the given period, but focuses instead on the modus operandi of “apologetic sociology”: the ways in which sociological knowledge was used to help manage “socialist society” under the late-communist regime, and how that knowledge was adapted to the changes brought about by perestroika (while anticipating the discipline’s own transformation during the early liberal democratic period after 1989). First, the paper deals with the reformulation, during the early 1970s, of Radovan Richta’s theory of scientific and technological revolution from the originally reform-communist, emancipatory, and technology-optimistic concept of the 1960s into a hegemonic legitimation paradigm allied with the closely related social management theory elaborated by František Kutta. Then the paper addresses the more practical side of the paradigm, as exemplified by Jaroslav Kohout’s economic sociology and his theory of labour collectives as central sites of state socialist socialisation and the disciplining of citizens. Finally, the paper considers semi-official research endeavours and expert “niches” during the 1980s, and how they drew legitimacy and state financial support from the claim that they were contributing to the “social-scientific steering of society” – while they stayed away from direct ideological engagement. It is these “niches” that formed the new sociological mainstream in the early liberal democratic period after 1989. That mainstream gave legitimacy not only to post-dissident social concepts such as “civil society” but also to the managerial and governance techniques of the emerging neoliberal capitalism. The paper exemplifies this branch of research by the mainly Bratislava-based group revolving around Fedor Gál and Pavol Frič and their development of a nonconformist method of “problem-oriented participative forecasting” during this period.

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O „nowo pojętą oszczędność”. Umiar w socjalistycznym systemie wartości

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Parfianowicz W.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2022

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vol. 117

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issue 1

52-69

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This article explores discussions on the ecological crisis and the relationship between humans and the natural environment which continued in the 1970s in Poland. The author is interested in the role of ecological reflection in Polish socialist philosophy of that time. She analyses the discussions on ecology, scientific and technological revolution, economic growth, consumerism and projects of living in moderation conducted at the conference ‘Development of Polish culture in the perspective of the socialist system of values’ organised by the ‘Poland 2000’ Committee for Research and Prognosis at the Polish Academy of Sciences in the spring of 1975. The debates are placed in the context of global and regional processes unfolding at the time alongside the development of science, economic strategies, and the growing environmental awareness. The analysis takes the perspective informed by the current knowledge on the ecological and climate crisis along with its root causes. The concept of degrowth provides a theoretical framework. The author also ponders on the knowledge that could be derived from the experience of the Central European socialist countries and its relevance to the development of contemporary eco-socialist ideas.

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Информационно-технологическая революция: социальный аспект

From Scientific Social Management to Neoliberal Governmentality? Czechoslovak Sociology and Social Research on the Way from Authoritarianism to Liberal Democrac, 1969-1989

O „nowo pojętą oszczędność”. Umiar w socjalistycznym systemie wartości