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Artykuł stanowi próbę nakreślania metodologii umożliwiającej socjologiczną konceptualizacją problemu ryzyka korupcji w instytucjach państwowych Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej. Proponowane podejście skupia się na pojęciu „zdarzenia korupcyjnego”, terminu łączącego w sobie podmiotowe predyspozycje do udziału w korupcyjnych wymianach wraz z ich systemowymi oraz strukturalnymi uwarunkowaniami. Dzięki obraniu...
The paper is an attempt to outline a coherent methodological framework fostering a more sociologically informed perspective on the problem of corruption risk as it is typical of the functioning of state institutions in Poland. The approach is based upon the concept of a ‘corruption event’ which combines agential dispositions to take part in corrupt exchanges as well as their structural and systemic...
The text explores the image of cyborg, hybrid of machine and organism, in contemporary critical discourse, tracing its political, and especially emancipatory, significance. It seeks to juxtapose an early scientific vision of improving natural human capacities by virtue of technology with Hannah Arendt’s assumptions about human condition and her condemnation of the technical reason of science. It also...
The article is an attempt to discuss the idea of risk society from the perspective of historical sociology or, to be more precise, the theory of social becoming developed by Piotr Sztompka. In this sense, the societal reality of risk society seems to be characterized by a specific innate dynamism rendering possible the discrepancy between objective volume of experienced risk and the perceived intensity...
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