Sentence:  From one perspective, much of what goes on in every society's day-to-day operations qualifies as <WSD>social engineering</WSD>. One can view child rearing, schooling, military indoctrination and any other means of mobilizing bias as <WSD>social engineering</WSD> without doing violence to the concept. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Efforts to influence attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.