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The term "sociale ingenieurs" was introduced in an essay by the Dutch industrialist J.C. Van Marken in 1894. The idea was that modern employers needed the assistance of specialists - social engineers - in handling the ''human'' problems of the plant, just as they needed technical expertise (ordinary engineers) to deal with the problems of dead matter (materials, machines, processes). The term was brought to America in 1899, when the notion of "social engineering" was also launched as the name of the task of the social engineer in this sense. "Social engineering" was the title of a small journal in 1899 (from 1900 named "Social Service"), and in 1909 the title of a book by its former editor, William H. Tolman (translated in French in 1910), marking the end of the usage of the terminology in the sense of Van Marken. With the Social Gospel sociologist Edwin L. Earp's ''The Social Engineer'', published during the "efficiency craze" of 1911 in the U.S., the usage of the term was launched that has since then been standard: the one building on a metaphor of social relations as "machineries"<ref>David Östlund, “A knower and friend of human beings, not machines: The business career of the terminology of social engineering, 1894-1910”, [Ideas in History, 2007:2][http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=a-knower-and-friend-of-human-beings].</ref>, to be dealt with in the manner of the technical engineer.<ref>http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=a-knower-and-friend-of-human-beings</ref> |
The term "sociale ingenieurs" was introduced in an essay by the Dutch industrialist J.C. Van Marken in 1894. The idea was that modern employers needed the assistance of specialists - social engineers - in handling the ''human'' problems of the plant, just as they needed technical expertise (ordinary engineers) to deal with the problems of dead matter (materials, machines, processes). The term was brought to America in 1899, when the notion of "social engineering" was also launched as the name of the task of the social engineer in this sense. "Social engineering" was the title of a small journal in 1899 (from 1900 named "Social Service"), and in 1909 the title of a book by its former editor, William H. Tolman (translated in French in 1910), marking the end of the usage of the terminology in the sense of Van Marken. With the Social Gospel sociologist Edwin L. Earp's ''The Social Engineer'', published during the "efficiency craze" of 1911 in the U.S., the usage of the term was launched that has since then been standard: the one building on a metaphor of social relations as "machineries"<ref>David Östlund, “A knower and friend of human beings, not machines: The business career of the terminology of social engineering, 1894-1910”, [Ideas in History, 2007:2][http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=a-knower-and-friend-of-human-beings].</ref>, to be dealt with in the manner of the technical engineer.<ref>http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=a-knower-and-friend-of-human-beings</ref> |
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Social engineering is a discipline in the social sciences that refers to efforts to influence popular attitudes, social behaviors, and resource management on a large scale. Social Engineering is the application of the scientific method for social concern. Social Engineers use the methods of science to analyze and understand social systems, so as to arrive at appropriate decisions as scientists, and not as politicians. The major difference between politicians and social engineers is that scientists base decisions on careful evaluations and objectivity without differential advantage. In the political arena, the counterpart of social engineering is political engineering.
Decision-making can affect the safety and survival of literally billions of people. As expressed by German Sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in his study The Present Problems of Social Structure,[1] society can no longer operate successfully using outmoded methods of social management. To achieve the best outcomes, all conclusions and decisions must use the most advanced techniques and include reliable statistical data, which can be applied to a social system. In other words, Social Engineering is a data-based scientific system used to develop a sustainable design so as to achieve the intelligent management of Earth’s resources with the highest levels of freedom, prosperity, and happiness within a population.
History
The term "sociale ingenieurs" was introduced in an essay by the Dutch industrialist J.C. Van Marken in 1894. The idea was that modern employers needed the assistance of specialists - social engineers - in handling the human problems of the plant, just as they needed technical expertise (ordinary engineers) to deal with the problems of dead matter (materials, machines, processes). The term was brought to America in 1899, when the notion of "social engineering" was also launched as the name of the task of the social engineer in this sense. "Social engineering" was the title of a small journal in 1899 (from 1900 named "Social Service"), and in 1909 the title of a book by its former editor, William H. Tolman (translated in French in 1910), marking the end of the usage of the terminology in the sense of Van Marken. With the Social Gospel sociologist Edwin L. Earp's The Social Engineer, published during the "efficiency craze" of 1911 in the U.S., the usage of the term was launched that has since then been standard: the one building on a metaphor of social relations as "machineries"[2], to be dealt with in the manner of the technical engineer.[3]
See Also
Further Reading
- "The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, and War", Jacque Fresco, 2002.
References
- ^ The American Journal of Sociology, vol. 10, 1905, no. 5, p. 569-688
- ^ David Östlund, “A knower and friend of human beings, not machines: The business career of the terminology of social engineering, 1894-1910”, [Ideas in History, 2007:2][1].
- ^ http://www.ideasinhistory.org/cms/index.php?page=a-knower-and-friend-of-human-beings