Social engineering
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Social engineering may refer to:
- Social engineering (psychology), efforts to design or influence small groups of individuals
- Social engineering (political science), efforts to influence society on a large scale
- Social engineering (security), the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulating and/or deceiving people.
- "Applied sociology" refers to efforts to fix a sociological problem in a society.
For the early history of the term, see
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