by Paul Severloh March 27, 2005
Get the social engineering mug.Often a tactic used by Team Avolition during their Minecraft Griefing videos. Rather that simply destroying a building they tear the entire structure down, put down dirt & plant saplings so that the moderators and admins cannot roll back the damage.
“No don’t leave the house, that’s a bad idea. What you do is a little social engineering instead and tear the house to the ground, put dirt & plant saplings so that they can’t tell where it was and they can’t use Big Brother to roll back the damage because it won’t be able to tell what was built and what was naturally there.” -Storm_Surge
by The Merc With A Mouth August 18, 2023
Get the Social Engineering mug.The deliberate, systematic application of social-scientific principles to redesign human societies, institutions, or behaviors according to a specific plan or ideology. Unlike the cybersecurity term (phishing humans), this is the grand-scale project of using policy, architecture, education, and incentives to "engineer" social outcomes. It ranges from progressive ambitions (reducing poverty through welfare design) to authoritarian nightmares (forging a "new Soviet man"). Social Engineering is the applied arm of social science, for better or worse.
*Example: The construction of public housing projects in 1950s America was an act of Social Engineering: planners used sociological theories about community to design physical spaces they believed would reduce crime and foster solidarity. The mixed, often disastrous results taught a hard lesson about the hubris of top-down social design—yet every zoning law and tax incentive remains a form of engineering society.*
by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026
Get the Social Engineering mug.1. Racist Social Engineering is the racially charged abuse of media power to negatively shape biases against an entire group of people through repeated negative portrayals or tropes of that group of people.
2. Repeated negative or unfavorable portrayals aimed at distorting the image of an entire group of people
3. Propaganda aimed at shaping negative biases towards a group of people through consistent unfavorable portrayals
2. Repeated negative or unfavorable portrayals aimed at distorting the image of an entire group of people
3. Propaganda aimed at shaping negative biases towards a group of people through consistent unfavorable portrayals
Several examples of racist social engineering, that also include sexual racism is the current systematic defeminization or masculinization of black women in media. The successful Systematic esmasculization of Asian men in media that negatively affects how Asian men navigate this society and dating world till this day. Black men were also targeted with emasculating propaganda aimed at downplaying the image of their masculinity. Racist social engineering can also negatively affect religious ethnic groups. An example of this Is that after 9/11, American media was bombarded with Anti-Muslim propaganda aimed at painting Muslim people as a menace to American society and as terrorists. You would commonly see muslims portrayed as terrorists inside of television shows and American movies, to instill fear and negative biases towards muslims in the subconscious minds of the masses. This type of propaganda negatively affects how the targeted group of people navigate the society, as negative biases are intentionally shaped against them.
by New age definitions December 25, 2019
Get the Racist social Engineering mug.The empirical study of engineering as a social activity—how engineers work, how design happens, how values shape technology, how engineering communities function. Social Sciences of Engineering examines engineering education, professional norms, design practices, and the social impacts of engineering decisions. It reveals that engineering isn't just technical problem-solving—it's social practice with social consequences.
"Engineering is just applied science, they say. Social sciences of engineering asks: then why do engineers rely so much on tacit knowledge? Why do designs reflect cultural values? Why do some technologies fail socially even when they work technically? Engineering is human, and social science shows how."
by Dumu The Void March 2, 2026
Get the Social Sciences of Engineering mug.Using groups in Skype, Twitter, MySpace etc to assemble a collection of explosively matched personality types, then purposely egging them on for personal entertainment.
So I read about the blowup in yesterday's chat. Were you responsible for that bit of social engineerking?
So I read about the blowup in yesterday's chat. Were you responsible for that bit of social engineerking?
by lspellman February 3, 2009
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