0 the artificial controlling or changing of how a society develops: --
Social engineering allows children to think they're talking to someone they know or are familiar with.
Even PCs protected behind firewalls can fall prey to social engineering.
The country has a long history of attempting social engineering through laws and regulations that many people would consider intrusive.
He dismissed the government's plans to give married couples tax breaks as "social engineering".
1 the artificial controlling or changing of the groups within society, usually according to particular political beliefs: --
He argues for American-style social engineering to help minorities advance.
Decisions should not be made by politicians in some form of modern social engineering.
He was appalled by the readiness of intellectuals as well as governments to resort to schemes of social engineering, and appalled too by the consequences of many such schemes.
For the most part, the research literature has not been supportive of attempts at ' social engineering ' that seek to build solidary networks when few or none exist.
In extremis, editors use a text as a tool for social engineering, and when this is the case, art may well suffer at the hands of politics.
Strategies of social engineering between 1948 and 1958 (such as various miners' housing schemes and an apprenticeship programme) were not only designed to recruit new labour by material incentives.
There may be imagined communities that are receptive to this kind of social engineering.
This is truly an attempt at social engineering, not least in that social rather than economic motives underlie it.
And if we accept this goal, we are morally obligated to do the social engineering necessary for its achievement.
