Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table Of Contents -- Social Engineering: Genealogy of a Concept -- PART I: THE SOCIOTECHNICAL PARADIGM -- 1. Sociotechnics: Basic Problems and Issues -- PART II: HISTORICAL APPROACHES -- 2. Nixon's Social Engineering -- 3. Sociotechnics and the Imposition of Martial Law in Poland -- PART III: 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? -- PART IV: 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 -- PART V: 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.