| 词汇 | social-engineering |
| 释义 | social engineering noun[ U ] uk /ˌsəʊ.ʃəl en.dʒɪˈnɪə.rɪŋ/ us /ˌsoʊ.ʃəl en.dʒɪˈnɪr.ɪŋ/ the artificial controlling or changing of how a society develops: （通过人工手段控制和改造社会群体的）社会工程 He dismissed the government's plans to give married couples tax breaks as "social engineering". The country has a long history of attempting social engineering through laws and regulations that many people would consider intrusive. attempts to trick people into giving secret or personal information, especially on the internet, and using it for harmful purposes: Even PCs protected behind firewalls can fall prey to social engineering. Social engineering allows children to think they're talking to someone they know or are familiar with. If buying your child an unfair advantage in life isn't social engineering, I don't know what is. Taken together, the figures suggest the costly social engineering measures have backfired. Most social engineering used to trick people into running the malicious programs is simple or even crude. Emails containing tempting subject lines but containing a trojan can be classified as an online social engineering attack. Society - general words active citizen active citizenship amenity civilized consumer society freeman human interest hunter-gatherer non-segregated non-segregation social Darwinism social engineer sociality socially societal sociological sociologically sociologist sociology uncivilized You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Fraud & corruption Internet terminology social engineering | Business Englishsocial engineering noun[ U ] ukus SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 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. Examples of social engineeringsocial engineering They developed a centralist ideology of planning that launched extreme projects of socialengineering. The second stage, interventionism, was inspired by progressive ideas that ushered in the new century and emphasised the possibilities of socialengineering. This element of socialengineering again suggests a move towards (or at least a desire for) universalism, harmony and peace. They no longer offered the possibility of socialengineering and political stability that had so captured the imagination of land reformers before 1914. By creating a balanced community we might be continuing exclusion because you might be seeking to do some socialengineering that might perpetuate exclusion. The colonial legacy of socialengineering merely mutated as local elites wanted it to do. This is complemented by an analysis of architectural modernism, functionalism and utopian socialengineering. And if we accept this goal, we are morally obligated to do the socialengineering necessary for its achievement. This is truly an attempt at socialengineering, not least in that social rather than economic motives underlie it. There may be imagined communities that are receptive to this kind of socialengineering. Strategies of socialengineering 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. In extremis, editors use a text as a tool for socialengineering, and when this is the case, art may well suffer at the hands of politics. 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. He was appalled by the readiness of intellectuals as well as governments to resort to schemes of socialengineering, and appalled too by the consequences of many such schemes. Decisions should not be made by politicians in some form of modern socialengineering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of social engineering These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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