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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451154503321

Autore

Adjibolosoo Senyo B-S. K

Titolo

Developing civil society [[electronic resource] ] : social order and the human factor / / Senyo Adjibolosoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2006

ISBN

1-351-16006-0

1-281-09705-5

9786611097059

0-7546-8088-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Civil society

Social engineering

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Social engineering : survival strategies and techniques since the dawn of human civilization : an overview -- The creation of ideas and application of knowledge to social engineering -- Developing civil society the orthodox way : democratization and constitutional rule -- Legal proliferation and its implications -- The impact of human factor decay on the effectiveness of social engineering programs -- The failure of social engineering : the empirical evidence -- A human factor approach to developing civil society -- Transforming humanity : human factor principles of social engineering and community building -- The future of humanity.

Sommario/riassunto

Addressing an important issue from a new perspective, this provocative and challenging book illustrates how a positive human factor is essential not only to developing, but also industrialized countries. It is ideal as supplementary reading for classes in political sociology, criminal justice, development studies and philosophy.