Series Background

Graduszynska & Sienkiewicz, Series Organizers - Paradigmatic Conservatism, The Social Construction of Pervasive Ecology, An Ecology of People And Cultures.

In exploring a notion of pervasive ecology, an ecology includes people as rhetorical positioning, amongst paradigms, within the advent of globalization and the muting of cultural and national boundaries. Treated in this way, ecology, being a pervasive concern, serves as a non-Cartesian means to mediate between conservative and liberal issues.

Pervasive ecology also implies that cultures be considered ecologically, i.e. a "Paradigmatic Conservative" view of cultures, wherein those marginalized within their boundaries are viewed as a homeostasis as valid as liberal introduction.

Toward these regards of pervasive ecology, an ecology of people and cultures, we have coming here to Poznan a group of scholars, important, among other reasons, for their strong ability to criticize scientistic view points and their impacts on society and socio-ecological paradigms; with that critique, they provide better interpretations as to the challenges before people and the interests of their paradigms.

A scientistic viewpoint, in as much as it tries to assume pure objectivity, beyond cultural paradigms, "denies accountability for its observed occurrences. It denies accountability for the subjects of its studies when it says, 'this is just what is done and just what happens according to law-like cause and effect." And "it denies accountability for its own position, for the selections the scientists are making in what they discuss and what they find." (Shotter)

Especially as it comes closer to a physics model, that scientistic point of view tends even to lose track of the fact that people are biological creatures, requiring optimal, not maximal levels of need satisfaction; that they are living parts of interrelated, interacting and sometimes reasonably looked-after biological systems; that people are mammals, deeply caring about relationships; finally, people are story telling creatures, dependent on negotiating narrative histories of cultural paradigms to determine how things count, make sense, achieve ethical consensus and construct their lives.

Thus, the socio-ecological point of view of this conference series, by contrast to a scientistic view, calls for accountability to those marginalized from an "objective" or "relative" point of view of science, which is everyone, from time to time, a respect for cultural patterns all the more critical with the advent of globalization and the muting of cultural and national boundaries (e.g., with the E.U.) and the struggle for cultural survival (e.g., cultures such as Belarus).

Organizers, Renata Graduszynska & Daniel Sienkiewicz

Future conferences propose: Hal Saunders, John Shotter, Stephen Toulmin, Stephen Littlejohn and Rom Harré.

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