Social engineering (political science)

Social engineering science is a top-down attempt to influence particular attitudes as well as social behaviors on the large scale—most often undertaken by governments, but also carried out by media, academia or private groups—in configuration to name desired characteristics in a planned population. Social engineering science can also be understood philosophically as a deterministic phenomenon where the intentions as well as goals of the architects of the new social construct are realized. Some social engineers use the scientific method to analyze and understand social systems in configuration 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 a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. of the critical and rational methods of science to the problems of the open society. In this respect, he offered 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: