Social engineering /edited by Adam Podgorecki, Jon Alexander, Rob Shields. - [Ottawa, Ontario] : Carleton University Press, (c)1996. Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (360 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

The sociotechnical paradigm -- 1. Sociotechnics: Basic Problems and Issues -- Historical approaches -- 2. Nixon's Social Engineering -- 3. Sociotechnics and the Imposition of Martial Law in Poland -- Empirical studies -- 4. Pavlik Morozov: A Soviet Case Study of "Dark" Social Engineering -- 5. Lessons from the Canadian Anti-smoking Campaign -- 6. Sociotechnics and Values: The case of a Canadian Aboriginal land claim -- 7. Can Sociotechnics Reduce Seismic Hazards? -- Theoretical advances -- 8. Social Design Methodologies versus Efficient Social Action -- 9. Sociotechnics under Authoritarianism -- 10. Self-alteration in Social Prediction: When does This Improve Predictive Accuracy? -- 11. An Action Basis of Social Theory: A New Paradigm for Designing Effective Organizations -- On sociotechnical practice -- 12. Experts and Sociotechnics -- 13. Infloglut and the Canadian Policy Advisory System -- 14. Foucault's Micro-Technics as Sociotechnics? -- 15. Elite Leadership of Collective Attitudes Toward Competitiveness: The Help Wanted Campaigns -- Index of Names -- Subject Index.



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