Journal:Tiltai
Volume 96, Issue 1 (2026), pp. 69–84
Abstract
The article examines classic technology acceptance models such as the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), which allow the relatively accurate prediction of technology use intentions, but do not always explain why some technologies, despite their perceived usefulness, remain unaccepted or are used differently than expected. The article assumes that this limitation is related to the logic of instrumental rationality underlying classic technology acceptance models. The study employs conceptual analysis by reconstructing the main constructs of technology acceptance models and interpreting them through Erich Fromm’s distinction between having and being. The analysis has revealed that classic technology acceptance models predominantly reflect a relationship with technology characteristic of the ‘having’ orientation, grounded in the logic of functionality, control and efficiency. The article contributes to technology acceptance theory by offering an interpretative extension of classic models and a conceptual foundation for a future methodology of analysing life orientations in gerontotechnology research.
Journal:Tiltai
Volume 88, Issue 1 (2022), pp. 63–79
Abstract
The article presents the discourse of folk medicine concepts in contexts of historicity, the social environment, and scientificity category interfaces. One of the essential features of folk medicine is its intra-disciplinary nature, necessitating basing the already-mentioned categories on a context analysis of theoretical and practical approaches to folk medicine. The article consists of four parts, which correspond to the approaches of discourse analysis on the concept of folk medicine. The first part presents the anthropological evaluation of folk medicine approaches to the social environment, historicity and scientificity. The second part highlights the context of the historicity of folk medicine, which raises the question whether folk medicine is an endangered legacy or a changing tradition? The third part analyses the expression of folk medicine in approaches to the coverage of the social environment: from village to city, from nation to humanity. The fourth part leads to an evaluation of the interfaces between folk medicine and scientificity as a problem of rationality/irrationality. In conclusion, it is emphasised that by presenting the discourse of folk medicine concepts in the already-mentioned segments (social environment, historicity, scientificity), folk medicine’s theoretical and practical expression is evaluated in contexts of today’s and past experiences.