The paper is focused on the problem of industrial heritage preservation and use in cities forming Ekaterinburg agglomeration. Based concept reflexive modernity, authors emphasize relevance a systematic multidisciplinary approach to related work, dominance human values meanings over exclusively economic ones, need find unique essence each individual object that was once part global industrializa...

This article follows the trail of Weber’s comprehensive sociology and uses hermeneutical method as well iconological applied to 11 contemporary works plastic art which can be described significant representative art. It pursues two specific objectives: (a) analyzing construction loneliness both in within society individuality separateness, through human bodies emotions; (b) attesting how this t...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent that ordinary people in Argentina understand and believe the ideas of development, progress and modernity and use these ideas in evaluating the world in general, and family behaviour in particular. We ask whether the concept of development and modernity is known and understood by ordinary people and the extent to which ordinary people use deve...

The recent global health crisis caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has proved to be an ecological crisis. This is ultimately due side effect of reflexive environmental risk. article seeks analyze connection between pandemic, risk in modernity and degrowth theory. As alternative (un)sustainable development, we seek propose as economically, socially environmentally sustainable strategy for ...

Summary Certain visionary threads of Florian Znaniecki’s thought present in his sociological theory education merit our attention. They are associated with the concept creating a grassroots movement new sociality, capable becoming vehicle reflexive social and cultural changes. These utopian related to current humanism appear all works. The problem altruism seems crucial light axiology, but has ...

Thepaperconsiders theroleof tradeunions in lifelong learning, their strategicapproachto lifelong learning, and the opportunities and limitations set by the current stage of globalized capitalist development. The paper has four sections, the first of which considers the relationship between ‘modernization’ as a trade union project and concepts such as reflexive modernity and risk society which h...

This paper presents an interview study among scientists working with Decode genetics in Iceland and lay individuals having recently donated blood to Decode. While genuinely enthusiastic that genetic technologies hold great potential to avert disease, the informants shared concerns that extensive predictive genetic testing, preventive treatment and tailoring of lifestyle to avoid potential disea...