scholarly journals Η βοηθική και το επιστημολογικό παράδειγμα της πολυπλοκότητας

Bioethica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ελένη Ρεθυμνιωτάκη (Eleni Rethimiotaki)
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Law School ◽  
Theory Of Science ◽  
Dynamic View ◽  
Epistemological Challenge ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Practical Challenge

Nearly half a century now, the regulation of biomedical research and its technological applications, particularly in medical practice, takes place through a novel combination of positive sciences with humanities, philosophy and social theory of science. However, their combination is still a challenge both practically and theoretically. The practical challenge is how scientific and technological progress combined to the economic and social development it brings is harmonized with the protection of natural and social goods as well as the respect for individual freedoms. Besides, the regulation of biomedicine consists an epistemological challenge for philosophy and theory of science. The work of the deceased Thanassis Papachristou, Professor of Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University in Athens and a former member of the National Bioethics Committee, has been a pioneer precisely because he perceived the dual challenge being simultaneously a civilist and a sociologist of law.The article explains first the reasons why his work opens up to a dynamic view of the regulation of biomedicine. Second, it proceeds further and after quoting the basic theoretical assumptions of the epistemological example of complexity, it develops arguments in favor of its adoption for the interpretation and description of bioethics with bio-law and their combination in the modern model of regulation of biomedicine. Thirdly, the article exposes some thoughts about the implementation of the complexity paradigm in the case pf the Greek model of regulation of biomedicine and the dynamics of bioethics development within it.

Comparative Study of the Promotion of S&T to Economic and Social Development in Hubei

2012 ◽  
Vol 482-484 ◽  
pp. 2289-2292
Author(s):  
Wei Zou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social System ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Progress Monitoring ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
Input And Output

Integrated progress of S&T is the important factor in the Economic and Social System. Based on the analysis of the economic and social growth and integrated progress of S&T in Hubei Province during Eleventh Five-Year, with the concept of the system and in the perspective of input and output, this paper used the national statistics and the regional scientific and technological progress monitoring indicators, put forward to the deep comparative analysis among Hubei and Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces in the eastern on socio-economic growth, integrated progress of S&T and promotion of S&T to economic and social development, then some countermeasures how Hubei to enhance the role of S&T were put forword.

scholarly journals Corporate foresight in Czechia

Ergo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Ludmila Kováříková ◽  
Ondřej Valenta
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Latent Demand ◽  
Corporate Foresight ◽  
Other Hand

Abstract Corporate foresight in the Czech Republic has been still a rather undiscovered and unmapped subject. This drawback is at least partly reduced by this article presenting results of a pioneer empirical research among Czech companies. Results of the research indicate that the level of utilization of foresight among Czech companies is low; on the other hand, the results suggest existence of a latent demand for foresight as a tool for increasing the capacities and capabilities to innovate. Innovation activities in companies are at the same time one of the most significant way to deal with contemporary economic and social development, characterized by a rapid technological progress and accelerating pace of change.

scholarly journals From sociology to social theory: Critical cosmopolitanism, modernity, and post-universalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 758-775
Author(s):  
Estevão Bosco ◽  
Neal Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Alternative Programs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Epistemological Challenge

This article focuses on the critical cosmopolitan aim of transcending sociology’s provincial outlook, which mistakenly universalizes Western societies’ historical experiences and normative aspirations. The authors argue that a change in perspective, from sociology to social theory, is crucial in this regard. While a sociological inflection carries a primary investment in the analysis of changes cosmopolitanism brings to the social world, social theory addresses the ontological and epistemological features that these changes precipitate. To demonstrate this, the authors offer a condensed reconstruction of critical cosmopolitan sociology, presenting Beck’s foundational formulation, outlining three main criticisms it faces and alternative programs stemming from them, and demonstrating how Delanty’s immanent-transcendent approach overcomes these limitations. To conclude, the authors address a crucial onto-epistemological challenge facing contemporary cosmopolitan scholarship, namely, how to mediate between the particular and the universal.

The Professional Quest for Truth: A Social Theory of Science and Knowledge.

Social Forces ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 933
Author(s):  
David Zaret ◽  
Stephan Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Theory Of Science

DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. ABOUT THE POWER OF EXPANSION OF (NEW) TECHNOLOGIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Sylwia Gwoździewicz ◽  
Magdalena Cieślikowska
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
The Impact

The article deals with contemporary problems resulting from technological progress. The authors outline the main determinants of social development, outlining the begin-nings of shaping the information society. The important issue of the impact of technol-ogy on the dimension and changes in social life was also raised. All the considerations entail an attempt to outline the direction of transformations carried out with new technologies, both in the global and individual dimensions. The article presents the issues of contemporary societies that bring together participants in a complex system, more and more interconnected and dependent on new technologies.

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