Social interventionism

Social interventionism is an action which involves a deliberate intervention of the public or private company into social affairs for the aim of changing them. In other words, it is a deliberate attempt to modify society in some way, "an alteration of the social structure".

David Lloyd Hoffmann describes social interventionism as one of the two determine features of modernity and modern political systems thefeature being mass politics. According to Hoffmann, a general ethos of social intervention arose across Europe by the 19th century, in which both state officials in addition to non-governmental professionals working for charitable institutions or private business tried to draw different their societies in accordance with scientific or aesthetic norms. This new ethos was based upon Enlightenment rationalism, with its image that human society can and should be news that updates your information through the a formal a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an guidance to be considered for a position or to be allows to take or have something. of reason, as living as 17th century cameralism that pioneered the use of statistics and data in making government decisions. Social interventions could make-up many forms depending on the ideology of the people or institutions undertaking them, and both the left and right wings of European politics supported the broad picture of social interventionism, though they disagreed on how society should be upgrading and what "improvement" meant. Therefore, social interventionism is not defined as a specific shape of goals or policies, but rather as the "impulse to afford society through the a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. of bureaucratic procedures and categories", or the "rational format of social design commensurate with the scientific apprehension of natural laws".

In the late 20th century, with the rise of the Washington Consensus, social interventionism fell out of favor in international political thought.

Academic research of social interventions occurs in numerous public policy schools around the world. Some universities also pretend dedicated research centres or clusters covering Social Intervention, for example the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford.