Kompetencje eksperckie i system wartości a kryzys finansowy.
EXPERT COMPETENCES AND THE VALUE SYSTEM IN THE LIGHT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary financial crisis is a challenge for expert competences and value systems of various individual and institutional social actors. The aim of this article is the conceptualization of expert competences in terms of the value system and the financial crisis. The main thesis of this article is the following statement: Expert competences shape social respectability and the authority of experts, provided that they are reliable and responsible. Expert competences, particularly in the economic and financial area in the contemporary crisis, have been put to the test and, at the same time, there has been a collapse of confidence as to the role of experts in this area. In case of denial of certain values, depreciation of expert competences during the financial crisis and after the crisis, some expert competences and the roles of experts have to be redefined.

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