The Transformations of Contemporary Culture and Their Social Consequences
Archerian Studies Vol. 3
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Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- Multiculturalism in the social space: illusion or reality?
- Consequences of intercultural communication from the perspective of Margaret S. Archer’s concept of human
- Traces of transcendence… Contemporary religious thinking in the face of the pluralism of worldviews and intercultural relations
- Human dignity in the social context: opportunities and threats
- Humanity in individual and social reintegration. The perspective of a linear-cyclic metamorphosis
- Human being, culture and values
- The issues of the subject, subjectification and subjectivity in the structures and functions of educational activities
- The category of educational agency in contemporary pedagogy
- The challenge of being human in our techno-age
- On a giant shoulders. Three merits of Archer’s contribution
- Contributors
- Series index
About the author
The Editors
Monika Bukowska PhD
Field of study: economics, philosophy, sociology, psychology.
Krzysztof Wielecki is the author of studies in social psychology and ontology, human philosophy and economic sociology. He also deals with macro sociology, contemporary social theories, subjectivity, civilization crisis, social order and mass culture.
About the book
Monika Bukowska / Krzysztof Wielecki (eds.)
The Transformations of Contemporary Culture and Their Social Consequences
Volume III of Archerian Studies, which we now deliver to our readers, focuses on the question of culture. Despite the numerous motifs which were introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer’s concept, we see that some repeat here constantly. We hope that this way of depicting considerations inspired by the thought of prominent scholars will not only become an occasion for this scientific literary output to become widespread, but will also open new research perspectives in sociology.
This eBook can be cited
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Contents
Anna Śliz and Marek S. Szczepański
Multiculturalism in the social space: illusion or reality?
Krzysztof Wielecki and Rafał Wiśniewski
Marek Rembierz
Janusz Mariański
Human dignity in the social context: opportunities and threats
Paweł Prüfer
Humanity in individual and social reintegration. The perspective of a linear-cyclic metamorphosis
Monika Bukowska
Human being, culture and values
Wojciech Kojs
Bogusław Śliwerski
The category of educational agency in contemporary pedagogy
Samuele Sangalli
The challenge of being human in our techno-age
Silvia Cataldi
Preface
We are pleased to present our new, third volume of the publication Archerian Studies. The idea that inspired us from the very beginning was to bear witness to the activity of the Polish scientific movement, which has been emerging since 2014, focused on the idea of critical realism. Then, for the first time, we invited Professor Margaret Scotford Archer to cooperate with the Institute of Sociological Sciences of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, and the Professor responded to us positively, even cordially.
Since then, she has come to us every year to chair Social Thought Master Courses focused on the concept of critical realism. It is always accompanied by two or three scientific conferences devoted to two or three main topics, as well as seminars for PhD students, consultations for them, as well as fascinating conversations and discussions. From the beginning, we also knew that these extraordinary meetings should be documented as a sign of a Polish meeting, but also with the participation of representatives of other nations of the scientific community, with an outstanding thinker of our time and one of the most important scientific orientations of the 20th and 21st centuries. It was also a matter of preserving the testimony of the extraordinary generosity of the Professor. This was the idea of the creation of a fairly cyclical publication in English, to which we have given the name Archerian Studies. By following the subsequent volumes, we can observe how the critical realism movement is developing in our country. In subsequent volumes, texts by scientists of various specialties appeared, which proves the wide impact of the Professor’s concept on the humanities in general, and not only on sociology. We also present texts by people from other countries, which shows that the Polish critical realism movement also widens into other communities, contributing to the development of interest in critical realism. In parallel to Archerian Studies, which is intended to help familiarize representatives of critical realism in the world with what is happening in Poland, as well as to promote this orientation in Poland’s neighboring countries, which determined the English language of the publications, Polish-language books have been published, although less frequently, to propagate critical realism in Poland. Both of these publishing lines draw on the achievements of the aforementioned conferences organized at the Institute of Sociological Sciences at UKSW. We select the texts that are most valuable, or most symptomatic of the successive phases of the development of this “theoretical framework” in Poland.
We have formed a quite rich community of critical realism in our country, and even quite a number of colleagues from other countries, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to the Warsaw center associated with the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, there is also a wide range of scientists centered around the Academy of Applied Sciences of the Common Knowledge Society in Szczecin.
We will probably also publish monothematic publications of a monographic nature. Thus, the reader will be able to get acquainted with various texts. The leitmotif here is multiculturalism and the human being (the human person), seen from the more or less consistent perspective of critical realism.
In particular, we would like to recommend to our readers the article written by Anna Śliz and Marek S. Szczepański, titled “Multiculturalism in the Social Space: Illusion or Reality.” The authors are undoubtedly among the leading Polish experts on the subject. It is probably also worth reading Krzysztof Wielecki and Rafał Wiśniewski’s text, titled “Consequences of Intercultural Communication from the Perspective of Margaret S. Archer’s Concept of Human.” Certainly, especially Rafał Wiśniewski, is already well-known as a sociologist of culture.
The issues of multiculturalism and pluralism, in the context of the philosophy of religion which are often associated with the category of transcendence, have become the subject of considerations of Marek Rembierz. He is an outstanding and well-known expert in critical realism, a participant in both the above-mentioned research groups from the UKSW and ANS TWP in Szczecin. We recommend his article titled “Traces of Transcendence… Contemporary Religious Thinking in the Face of the Pluralism of Worldviews and Intercultural Relations.”
The reflection on human being is found in the study written by Fr. Janusz Marinski, titled “Human Dignity in the Social Context: Opportunities and Threats.” This eminent sociologist of religion and morality wished to delve into the central ideas of critical realism.
The study presented by Fr. Paul Prüfer (the guest of the Warsaw conferences), titled “Humanity in Individual and Social Reintegration.” The author focuses on the issues of fundamental character for sociology and philosophy of human being. This theme is analyzed in a similar context by Monika Bukowska’s work titled “Human Being, Culture and Values.”
Details
- Pages
- 200
- Publication Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631897768
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631897775
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631811986
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20593
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2023 (September)
- Keywords
- human horizons subject’s reflexivity culture agency inner conversation subjectivity
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2023. 200 pp., 3 fig. b/w.
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