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According to Hoffmann, a general ethos of social intervention arose across Europe by the 19th century, in which both state officials and non-governmental professionals working for charitable institutions or private companies tried to reshape their societies in accordance with scientific or aesthetic
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Therefore, social interventionism is not defined as a specific set of goals or policies, but rather as the "impulse to manage society through the application of bureaucratic procedures and categories", or the "rational design of social order commensurate with the scientific understanding of natural
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is an action which involves the deliberate intervention of a public or private organization into social affairs for the purpose of changing them. In other words, it is a deliberate attempt to change society in some way, "an alteration of the social structure".
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wings of European politics supported the broad idea of social interventionism, though they disagreed on how society should be improved and what "improvement" meant.
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schools around the world. Some universities also have dedicated research centres or clusters covering social intervention, for example the
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Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political economy and social science at the turn of the millennium
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in making government decisions. Social interventions could take many forms depending on the
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Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941
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Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941
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Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941
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Intervention of a public or private organization in social affairs
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of the people or institutions undertaking them, and both the
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David Lloyd Hoffmann, Distinguished Professor of History at
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Academic research of social interventions occurs in many
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and modern political systems (the second feature being
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Washington Consensus
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Department of Social Policy and Intervention
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Ohio State University
modernity
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Enlightenment
rationalism
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cameralism
statistics
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ideology
left
right
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