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Social Engineering.

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 engineer...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Podgorecki, Adam
Otros Autores: Alexander, John, Shields, Rob
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : MQUP, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.