The Contemporary Society, Changes in the Job World – Challenges for the Future
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im.Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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Społeczeństwo współczesne, zmiany w świecie pracy – wyzwania dla przyszłości
Abstract
The narrative used in the article refers to the interpretational complexity of the
phenomenon of contemporary society. Globalization fulfills a wide spectrum
of the global world phenomena in the situation of unobviousness, diversity,
ambivalence and ambiguity, which influence the new quality of sociocultural
life. Trying to understand the content given to the distinguished definitions
of society, intellectuals refer to the theory of the social development and to
the interpretation of the mechanisms of a social change, with a focus on the
spheres of social life, which are the impulses for changes taking place in the
society. Emphasizing heterogeneity and changeability of forms of postmodern
social organization, one may point to the following orientations capturing
subtleness of the contemporary society: orientation to a global change,
orientation to a certain type of civilization ascription to risk, orientation to
responsibility, orientation to anticipation, orientation to responsible participation
and cooperation in a changing and interdependent global society,
orientation to knowledge, orientation to experience borrowed from the media,
orientation to the consumption ideology. Society faces the task of selfdetermination
in the situation of non-obviousness, risk, fragmentation and
ambiguity. By no accident then, were the the globalizational processes in the
world and a critical and permanent thought and evaluation of the changes
taking place in the modern global society, in the focus of the authoress. Paying
attention to the quality of the global “cultural ecumene” (U. Hannerz)
inclines reflection about global changes in lifestyles which is meaningful
for the quality of changes in the job world and career planning and career
management practices. The sequential development of an individual (which
is integrally linked with the career development) constitutes the essence of
the process, which is lifelong. The economy which is based on knowledge
determines the orientation on knowledge of the contemporary society. The
development of careers of members in such a society is its crucial element.
Moreover, the quality of socio-cultural and economic changes will demand
constant career management and modification of its individualized paths.
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contemporary society, globalizational processes, socio-cultural transformation, heterogeneity, orientations of society, job market, living to work
Citation
Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja Nr 1/2012, s. 43-63
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978-83-232-2470-9