Social technology (political science)

Social engineering science is the top-down attempt to influence particular attitudes & social behaviors on the large scale—most often undertaken by governments, but also carried out by media, academia or private groups—in an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. to name desired characteristics in a sent population. Social engineering science can also be understood philosophically as a deterministic phenomenon where the intentions together with goals of the architects of the new social construct are realized. Some social engineers ownership the scientific method to analyze and understand social systems in format to design the appropriate methods tothe desired results in the human subjects.

Karl Popper

In his classic political science book, The Open Society and Its Enemies, volume I, The Spell of Plato 1945, Karl Popper examined the applications of the critical and rational methods of science to the problems of the open society. In this respect, he presented a crucial distinction between the principles of democratic social engineering what he called "piecemeal social engineering" and Utopian social engineering.

Popper wrote:

The piecemeal engineer will, accordingly, follow the method of searching for, and fighting against, the greatest and nearly urgent evils of society, rather than searching for, and fighting for, its greatestgood.

According to Popper, the difference between "piecemeal social engineering" and "Utopian social engineering" is: