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单词 social engineering
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social engineering
noun[U]
uk
/ˌsəʊ.ʃəl en.dʒɪˈnɪə.rɪŋ/us
/ˌsoʊ.ʃəl en.dʒɪˈnɪr.ɪŋ/
theartificialcontrollingorchangingof how asocietydevelops:
Hedismissedthe government'splansto givemarriedcouplestaxbreaksas "socialengineering".
Thecountryhas alonghistoryofattemptingsocialengineeringthroughlawsandregulationsthat manypeoplewouldconsiderintrusive.
attemptstotrickpeopleinto givingsecretorpersonalinformation,especiallyon theinternet, and using it forharmfulpurposes:
EvenPCsprotectedbehindfirewallscanfallpreytosocialengineering.
Socialengineeringallowschildrentothinkthey'retalkingto someone theyknowor arefamiliarwith.
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  • Ifbuyingyourchildanunfairadvantageinlifeisn'tsocialengineering, I don'tknowwhat is.
  • Taken together, thefiguressuggestthecostlysocialengineeringmeasureshavebackfired.
  • Mostsocialengineeringused totrickpeopleintorunningthemaliciousprogramsissimpleorevencrude.
  • Emailscontainingtemptingsubjectlinesbutcontaininga trojan can beclassifiedas anonlinesocialengineeringattack.
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(Definition ofsocial engineeringfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
social engineering
noun[U]
uk
/ˌsəʊ.ʃəl en.dʒɪˈnɪə.rɪŋ/us
/ˌsoʊ.ʃəl en.dʒɪˈnɪr.ɪŋ/
theartificialcontrollingorchangingof thegroupswithinsociety
（通过人工手段控制和改造社会群体的）社会工程

social engineering| Business English

social engineering
noun[U]
uk
us
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
theartificialcontrollingorchangingof thegroupswithinsociety, usuallyaccordingtoparticularpoliticalbeliefs:
Hearguesfor American-stylesocialengineeringtohelpminoritiesadvance.
(Definition ofsocial engineeringfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsocial engineering

social engineering
They developed a centralist ideology of planning that launched extreme projects ofsocialengineering.
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The second stage, interventionism, was inspired by progressive ideas that ushered in the new century and emphasised the possibilities ofsocialengineering.
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This element ofsocialengineeringagain suggests a move towards (or at least a desire for) universalism, harmony and peace.
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They no longer offered the possibility ofsocialengineeringand political stability that had so captured the imagination of land reformers before 1914.
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By creating a balanced community we might be continuing exclusion because you might be seeking to do somesocialengineeringthat might perpetuate exclusion.
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The colonial legacy ofsocialengineeringmerely mutated as local elites wanted it to do.
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This is complemented by an analysis of architectural modernism, functionalism and utopiansocialengineering.
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And if we accept this goal, we are morally obligated to do thesocialengineeringnecessary for its achievement.
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This is truly an attempt atsocialengineering, not least in that social rather than economic motives underlie it.
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There may be imagined communities that are receptive to this kind ofsocialengineering.
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Strategies ofsocialengineeringbetween 1948 and 1958 (such as various miners' housing schemes and an apprenticeship programme) were not only designed to recruit new labour by material incentives.
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In extremis, editors use a text as a tool forsocialengineering, and when this is the case, art may well suffer at the hands of politics.
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For the most part, the research literature has not been supportive of attempts at 'socialengineering ' that seek to build solidary networks when few or none exist.
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He was appalled by the readiness of intellectuals as well as governments to resort to schemes ofsocialengineering, and appalled too by the consequences of many such schemes.
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Decisions should not be made by politicians in some form of modernsocialengineering.
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