Social Engineering
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 1996
365 pages
978-0-7735-9600-9 (ISBN)
Description
Social engineering in the 20th century has brought about some large-scale changes in society, often the result of visionary social projects, and plans designed on a grand and ideal scale. Such plans have often extracted terrible human costs. Numerous failures have marked 20th century social engineering.
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Adam Pogorecki
Social Engineering
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01/1996
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table Of Contents
- Social Engineering: Genealogy of a Concept
- PART I: THE SOCIOTECHNICAL PARADIGM
- 1. Sociotechnics: Basic Problems and Issues
- PART II: HISTORICAL APPROACHES
- 2. Nixon's Social Engineering
- 3. Sociotechnics and the Imposition of Martial Law in Poland
- PART III: EMPIRICAL STUDIES
- 4. Pavlik Morozov: A Soviet Case Study of "Dark" Social Engineering
- 5. Lessons from the Canadian Anti-smoking Campaign
- 6. Sociotechnics and Values: The case of a Canadian Aboriginal land claim
- 7. Can Sociotechnics Reduce Seismic Hazards?
- PART IV: THEORETICAL ADVANCES
- 8. Social Design Methodologies versus Efficient Social Action
- 9. Sociotechnics under Authoritarianism
- 10. Self-alteration in Social Prediction: When does This Improve Predictive Accuracy?
- 11. An Action Basis of Social Theory: A New Paradigm for Designing Effective Organizations
- PART V: ON SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICE
- 12. Experts and Sociotechnics
- 13. Infloglut and the Canadian Policy Advisory System
- 14. Foucault's Micro-Technics as Sociotechnics?
- 15. Elite Leadership of Collective Attitudes Toward Competitiveness: The Help Wanted Campaigns
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
