Social Engineering in the Information Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11372570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alistair S Duff (0000-0002-5370-9019, Napier University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-71 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Information Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-2243 • E-ISSN: 1087-6537 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01972240590895937 |
| OpenAlex | W1983495463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article explores the relevance of social engineering for the postindustrial epoch. The concept of social engineering has been dormant in recent years, stained by the behavior of police states in the 20th century. Yet stripped of its excesses, social engineering still represents a defensible moral and political enterprise. What is needed for the 21st century, however, is a chastened, deontological theory of social engineering, one that accepts the inviolability of the person while still pursuing ambitious long-term teleological strategies through state action. For its content, progressive information society policy should revisit the ethical norms developed by the left-liberal tradition, as articulated by the late John Rawls and others. The article concludes that the information age offers a new opportunity to engineer a just social order, or, at any rate, that the policymaking community needs to reevaluate the idea of social engineering
Action (physics · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Post-industrial society · Relevance (law · Social engineering (security · Social order · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Teleology · Computer Science · Information Society and Technology Trends · Law · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |