Social projecting: modern trends of development

Abstract

In the article analyzes the genesis of social engineering. Defined trajectory of the theory and practice of social engineering. Among the most significant trends emphasize the functional futurological, methodological and practical trajectories. The urgency of the projective function of sociology aimed at determining the range of possible prospects of the research object. Indicated that the future becomes an object of design and an important area of theoretical and empirical studies of modern sociology. Emphasized that the modern methodology of social engineering can be defined as a subject-oriented. The expediency of the subject-praxeological approach to social engineering. Stressed that this design becomes teleological, it loses the totality of characteristics and quality becomes fragmentary, context, locality, it focuses subjective idea of the true, desirable and effective.