Social Engineering
Contributors: Adam Podgorecki (Editor); Jon Alexander (Editor); Rob Shields (Editor)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; Brand: Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780886292706
Subjects: Central government policies; Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Social Science; Social Change; Social Policy; Politics / Current Events; Sociology - General; Sociology; History & Theory - General; Public Policy - Social Policy
Description: Social Engineering is a landmark attempt to develop both theory and and ̃a paradigm for planned social action. In this collection of articles, Adam Podgorecki's work is a linchpin for debate among social policy practitioners and theorists from Europe and North America.

Their studies span a wide spectrum: Nixon and the Watergate scandal, Jaruzelski's Martial Law in Poland, Soviet myth-building, the Canadian anti-smoking campaign, earthquake planning, native land claims, "infoglut," and self-fulfilling prophecy. Yet these diverse analyses clearly support and enhance one another along carefully defined themes of guided social action.

Social Engineering is an important addition to the shelves of public policy libraries and will be as illuminating to governments, corporations, policy consultants and special interest groups as it is to theorists.