INION’s Library as a “Mirror” of the Social Sciences Development in Russia: From the First Socialist Experiments to the Modern Digital Age by A. V. Kuznetsov, L. V. Yurchenkova

“…It is concluded that any steps towards digitalization should be focused primarily on the needs of readers (postgraduates, researchers and university teachers) and not based on the proposals of technocrats who have little idea in which direction social and humanitarian sciences are developing. …”
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Humanization of the Technological Environment as a Vector of Social Responsibility of Business by M. A. Izmailova

“…Recommendations are given for eliminating or minimizing the conflict between humanistic and technocratic approaches in the management of companies based on the principles of social responsibility.Conclusions and Relevance: the solution of a set of tasks for the digital transformation of the economy, saturating the business environment with new technological solutions, in the current conditions of uncertainty formed under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic, actualizes the problem of preserving humanity in a technologizing world. …”
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Sociological and psychological models of communication: possibilities and restrictions of application in intercultural interaction research at the borderlands by Maksymovych O. V.

“…The vector of the dynamics of intercultural communication interpretation has been determined considering the peculiarities of the present: from its technocratic to interactionist vision. Emphasis is placed on the common and distinct communication models of G. …”
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Fighting Past Economic Wars: Crisis and Austerity in Latin America by Stephen Brett Kaplan

“…I challenge and contextualize this view by incorporating the role of technocratic advisors into a domestic policy-making framework. …”
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Identifying the Factors Affecting the Blighting of Urban Spaces (Case Study: Tabriz Metropolis) by Shapour Abbasi, Ali Panahi, Hasan Ahmadzadeh

“…Findings show that the most effective in the formation of urban blighting in Tabriz metropolis is related to the variables of technocratic management system and shifting resources and facilities to high-income deciles of society, non-segregation of interventions in various urban contexts (new, old, worn and informal), tissue wear and obsolescence of equipment and transformation in economic centers with scores of 0.791, 0.744, 0.728 and 0.639, respectively. …”
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Contradictions of Philosophy of Education as an Object of Scientific Analysis by Светлана Черепанова

“…The general contra-dictions of the philosophy of education are distinguished, in particular: between the integrity of cultural existence of mankind and the specifics of national cultural correspondence; between the dominant collective forms of the educational process and the individual nature of cognitive activity; between humanistic and sci­entifically-technocratic worldview; between the challenges of modern scientific thinking and the practice of its implementation in educational and pedagogical activity; between digitalization activity and information space safety. …”
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Slow Science and Slow Education in a Digitalized University: an Anthropopractic Approach by Yu. A. Gorbunova, I. O. Boronikhina

“…The article analyzes the philosophical concepts that underlie the slow movement in universities and substantiates the importance of an anthropopractical approach to the study of slow science and slow education.Methodology and sources. The technocratic approach to the digitalization of higher education contributes to the spread of high-speed science and learning practices based on the reduction of knowledge to information, the growth of knowledge – to extension and cumulation, the cognitive motivation – to competition, greed and ambition. …”
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El papel de España en la política africana de Marcello Caetano by María José Tíscar Santiago

“…It is in bilateral relations where the previous tendency changed, as the Spanish technocrats who had now reached the Foreign Office, wanted to capitalise services rendered in multilateral relations, to initiate an expansion in the Portuguese market. …”
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History of the Concept of Similarity in Natural Sciences by Virginia John Grigoriadou, Frank A. Coutelieris, Kostas Theologou

“…A core question that motivated our work was when and under which conditions did the transition from the “technocratic” utilization of similarity (i.e., the use of similarity as a solution for practical problems) to its theoretical documentation and its conscious and systematic use as a significant experimental tool occurred. …”
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Factors influencing institutionalization of health technology assessment in Kenya by Rahab Mbau, Anna Vassall, Lucy Gilson, Edwine Barasa

“…Results We found that institutionalization of HTA in Kenya was being supported by factors such as establishment of organizational structures for HTA; availability of legal frameworks and policies on HTA; increasing availability of awareness creation and capacity-building initiatives for HTA; policymakers’ interests in universal health coverage and optimal allocation of resources; technocrats’ interests in evidence-based processes; presence of international collaboration for HTA; and lastly, involvement of bilateral agencies. …”
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An Assessment of CO₂ Capture Technologies towards Global Carbon Net Neutrality by Amith Karayil, Ahmed Elseragy, Aliyu M. Aliyu

“…Overall, capture rates are well short of projections for carbon neutrality; the methodology put forward for prioritising and aligning appropriate technologies and the region-by-region analysis will help highlight to technocrats, governments, and policymakers the state of the art and how to best utilise them to mitigate carbon emissions—critical in achieving the net-zero goals set at various international agreements on climate change.…”
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Paradoxes of Democracy and Depoliticisation in the Social Peripheries of Modernity by Gianpasquale Preite

“…Depoliticisation, in fact, appears as a paradox of democratic systems closely related to the development of the technocratic practices and the enhancement of the bureaucratic apparatus. …”
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Wolf Girls and Mechanical Boys: Whiteness and Assimilation in Bruno Bettelheim’s Narratives of Autism by Elizabeth Cady Maher

“…This article will also argue that in the late 1950s and the 1960s Bruno Bettelheim used narratives of autism to promote a new model of white technocratic masculinity in the United States. The creation of this new model of white masculinity was bound up with the whitening of Ashkenazi Jewish identity. …”
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONFLICTS AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN IGANGA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. by Abdallah Awuye, Ayodeji Awobamise, Edmand Bakashaba

“…Recommendation: The researcher recommends that; political leaders should come up with bylaws that streamline the roles and responsibilities of political and technical staff, administrators should work within given guidelines, and contracts committees should always seek the technical guidance of the technocrats for timely, effective, and quality services. …”
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G.M. MCLUHAN: COMMUNICATION AS A MEANS SOCIALIZATION by Olga A. Ivenkova, Nina B. Itunina

“…The authors of the article demonstrate the advantage of philosophical, cultural and interdisciplinary approaches in domestic communicativism, based not on a technocratic, but on a humanistic dominant. Scope of results. …”
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Traditional knowledge system in disaster risk reduction: Exploration, acknowledgement and proposition by Pribat Rai, Vimal Khawas

“…The very composite environmental system is simplified whilst extracting resources, resulting in resource depletion and environmental degradation, consequently opening the door for disaster. Technocratic science must recognise the need for a relational or holistic approach rather than believing in reductionist approaches alone whilst dealing with natural calamities. …”
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Conceptualising fairness: three pillars for medical algorithms and health equity by Daniel Z Buchman, Katrina Hui, Laura Sikstrom, Marta M Maslej, Zoe Findlay, Sean L Hill

“…The response to these issues within the scientific community has been technocratic. Studies either measure (mathematically) competing definitions of fairness, and/or recommend a range of governance tools (eg, fairness checklists or guiding principles). …”
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Tecnología digital: reflexiones pedagógicas y socioculturales by Victoria González García

“…In this transition people are living an historical moment in witch three paradigms (the contextual, the technocratic o mechanic and the economic) are in conflict. …”
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The politics of adaptive governance: water reform, climate change, and First Nations’ justice in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin by Carina A. Wyborn, Lorrae E. van Kerkhoff, Matthew J. Colloff, Jason Alexandra, Ruby Olsson

“…Despite an acknowledged need for substantive reforms, inquiry recommendations perpetuate technocratic (for climate change) or administrative rationalist (for First Nations) approaches. …”
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MORE COMPLEX THAN WASTELAND REPARATIVE SITE HISTORY ALONG THE BOSTON-REVERE BORDER by McCann, Tess Davenport

“…Previous generations of developers have similarly emptied this place by relying on the rhetorical trope of wasteland, which allowed for human technocratic intervention in the landscape. These interventions, I argue, tended to fail, creating new wastelands that needed improvement. …”
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