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Paradigms of future changes in the 21st century (geopolitical, economic and cultural aspects)

doc. Ing. Iveta Pauhofová, CSc.

Members of project
doc. Ing. Tomáš Želinský, PhD., Ing. Vanda Vašková, PhD., Ing. Soňa Svocáková, prof. Ing. Peter Staněk, CSc., doc. Ing. Iveta Pauhofová, CSc., Ing. Dávid Martinák

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• Duration of the project: 2012-2015
  ID number: VEGA 2/0004/12

• Key processes and paradigms of the post-crisis development in the 21st century will be defined on the basis of research of 7 selected areas: models of contemporary society (geopolitical regional view of the models of contemporary society and civilization), vital questions of future global society (pension systems, systems of medical care and services, new financial architecture of the world, institutional forms of governance, homogeneity and heterogeneity of social systems from the aspects of economy and culture), income stratification and inequalities in the world, global consumption (consumption at the level of states, enterprises and households, consumption in relationship to the natural resources, consumption and new technologies, cultural and ethical aspects of consumption), technologies and future development of the society (technologies – ethics, economic and societal impact of modern technologies), sustainable development of the society, controlled society or democracy?