The sociologist of law as social engineer engagé. In memory of Erhard Blankenburg (1938-2018)

2018 ◽  
pp. 197-201
Author(s):  
Alfons Bora
Keyword(s):  
Social Engineer

The Role of Science

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Saint-Paul
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Social Planner ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
Social Engineer

This chapter describes the social sciences. Unlike the natural sciences, the social sciences are inevitably statistical. When documenting human behavior, for example, they can at most claim that a trait is present in a certain fraction of the population. However, the social engineer of the paternalistic state must take into account that the “science of happiness” that is being implemented does not apply uniformly to all individuals. A policy that benefits some by preventing mistakes or removing their biases harms those who are immune to these issues. This difficulty, however, entirely disappears as long as the state is utilitarian or, more generally, pursues any objective that aggregates welfare between individuals, for the statistics are the only thing the utilitarian needs to know. Once the population distribution of the relevant effects and mechanisms is known, the social planner can safely use it to balance gains and losses across incarnations and perform the cost-benefit analysis of its policies.

Effects of Digital Convergence on Social Engineering Attack Channels

2010 ◽  
pp. 1764-1777
Author(s):  
Bogdan Hoanca ◽  
Kenrick Mock
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Channels ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
Weakest Link ◽  
Digital Convergence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Voice Data ◽  
Social Engineer

Social engineering refers to the practice of manipulating people to divulge confidential information that can then be used to compromise an information system. In many cases, people, not technology, form the weakest link in the security of an information system. This chapter discusses the problem of social engineering and then examines new social engineering threats that arise as voice, data, and video networks converge. In particular, converged networks give the social engineer multiple channels of attack to influence a user and compromise a system. On the other hand, these networks also support new tools that can help combat social engineering. However, no tool can substitute for educational efforts that make users aware of the problem of social engineering and policies that must be followed to prevent social engineering from occurring.

scholarly journals Decolonizing the New Town: Roy Gazzard and the Making of Killingworth Township

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
British Society ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
New Town ◽  
New Community ◽  
Social Engineer ◽  
European Welfare States

AbstractWhat better laboratory for an experiment in racial integration could there be than the nascent community of a new town? The architect Roy Gazzard posed this question in 1969, as he embarked on designing the new town of Killingworth in northern England. A self-proclaimed “social engineer,” Gazzard applied his experience as a town planner in colonial Uganda to shaping a new community in the postimperial metropole. Historians have long recognized the way that built forms were translated from metropole to colony, but the reverberations of colonial planning in the postwar European welfare states have received little attention. In this article I use intellectual biography to chart the trajectory of notions of community, spirituality, space, and place as they migrated from colonial Uganda to postimperial Britain. I focus on the career of Roy Gazzard, an outspoken social engineer and devout Christian, who hoped to use his colonial urban planning experience to counter what he saw as the increasingly secular and centrifugal forces in modern British society. An examination of letters, private paper, lectures, planning documents, and diagrams held in the newly opened archive of Gazzard's work illuminates the course of colonial expertise as it was refracted back into the postcolonial metropole.

Social engineering and social marketing: why is one “good” and the other “bad”?

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Marie Kennedy ◽  
Andrew Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Social Marketing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
First Time ◽  
Social Engineer

Purpose – The aim of this article is to explore how social engineering and social marketing are connected, and how social marketing is a tool used to achieve adherence to social engineering. Design/methodology/approach – Through examination of contemporary and historical thinking around social marketing, we present a conceptual argument that social marketing is another tool of the social engineer, and that social engineering, through methods such as social marketing, is pervasive throughout all societies in positive ways. Findings – We develop a conceptual model of social engineering and social marketing, which goes beyond behaviour change to incorporate the essentials of society and the influencers of those essentials. In doing so, we show that social marketing influenced behaviour lies within the social engineering influenced laws, codes and norms of society, which in turn lie within the morals, values and beliefs of society. Originality/value – This article provides for the first time a conceptual grounding of social marketing within social engineering, enabling academics and practitioners to contextualise social marketing activities in a broader societal framework.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Engineer Attack Phases on Improved Security Countermeasures

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Louay Karadsheh ◽  
Haroun Alryalat ◽  
Ja'far Alqatawna ◽  
Samer Fawaz Alhawari ◽  
Mufleh Amin AL Jarrah
Keyword(s):  
Target Recognition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
Potential Target ◽  
The Social ◽  
Telecommunication Companies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Social Engineer ◽  
Security Countermeasures

The objective of this paper is to examine a model to identify Social Engineer Attack Phases to improve the security countermeasures by Social-Engineer Involvement. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to a sample of 243 respondents who were actively engaged in 3 Jordanian telecommunication companies. All hypotheses were tested using (PLS-SEM). The results of the study indicate that Social Engineer Attack Phases (Identification the potential target, Target Recognition, Decision approach, and Execution) have a partially mediate and significant impact on improving the security countermeasures by Social-Engineer Involvement. On the other hand, the Social Engineer Attack Phases (Information Aggregations, Analysis and Interpretation, Armament, and Influencing) have a fully mediate and significant impact on improving the security countermeasures by Social-Engineer Involvement. The findings of this study help to provide deep insight to help security professionals prepare better and implement the right and appropriate countermeasures, whether technical or soft measures.

From Operationism to Cultural Design: An Approach to Skinner's Development

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Argument Analysis ◽  
Cultural Design ◽  
Social Engineer

Aspects of B.F. Skinner's development into a social engineer are examined with particular consideration of the link between his later work and his reliance on operationism. Special emphasis is given to his manner of argument. Analysis of this style provides a perspective not accessible through attempts to locate Skinner's work in terms of traditions of thinking.

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