Is there such a thing as social engineering?
Is it possible to study a subject perhaps sociology//psychology and engineer social systems to determine the perfect social system? Experimenting on and studying voluntary participants in your ideal social systems?
And if you can provide any more information for someone who may be interested in doing something like this. The subjects to study and the name of the job for someone who does something like this. Thanks.
Yes it’s called Eugenics however the subjects (you being one) are not volunteers. David Rockefeller is the most prominent U.S. figure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBnonS3ATEs
You, with your little pop-culture avatar thought you came up with a witty little shocker. The truth is what you assumed to be fantasy is an intimate part of your everyday reality.
Yes it’s called Eugenics however the subjects (you being one) are not volunteers. David Rockefeller is the most prominent U.S. figure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBnonS3ATEs
You, with your little pop-culture avatar thought you came up with a witty little shocker. The truth is what you assumed to be fantasy is an intimate part of your everyday reality.
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"Social engineering" usually takes the form of government policy. At the end of the eighteenth century, the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution was an act of social engineering that empowered the people of this country with "unalienable rights," such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to own and bear arms, the right to a speedy trial, protection from double jeopardy, and so forth.
In the nineteenth century, the abolition of slavery was a bit of social engineering that tore this country apart. After the Civil War, Congress passed the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, freeing slaves, granting citizenship to people regardless of their former state of servitude, and extending to them the right to vote. To this day, many Southerners are greatly disturbed by this change in their lifestyles.
Some of the greatest examples of social engineering in the twentieth century took place during the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Social Security, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Aid to the Blind, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and so forth changed the basic fabric of our society.
Today, the issues that involve social engineering center around same-sex marriage, the right to privacy, government control over private enterprise, and federal regulations regarding banking and finance will likely have long-term effects on the United States.
In some cases, public opinion drives the attempts at social engineering, but in other instances, the government has to take unpopular stands. However, eventually most people accept the changes. One extraordinary exception to that rule was the imposition of prohibition by Constitutional amendment. That amendment was soon reversed, reflecting the wishes of the people.
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