social engineering

top-down effort to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale by government, media, academia or other groups
Intangible academic_discipline Q847808
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social engineering

Summary

social engineering is an academic discipline[1]. It draws 193 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #179 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • social engineering's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • social engineering's GND ID is recorded as 4181997-4[4].
  • social engineering's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh87001696[5].
  • social engineering's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 14494065t[6].
  • social engineering's subclass of is recorded as engineering[7].
  • social engineering's subclass of is recorded as design[8].
  • social engineering's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00571876[9].
  • social engineering's Commons category is recorded as Social engineering (political science)[10].
  • social engineering's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/036d67[11].
  • social engineering's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Social engineering (political science)[12].
  • social engineering's different from is recorded as Social engineering[13].
  • social engineering's different from is recorded as social engineering[14].
  • social engineering's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2011506[15].
  • social engineering's STW Thesaurus for Economics ID is recorded as 28014-0[16].
  • social engineering's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID is recorded as social_engineering[17].
  • social engineering's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007541391105171[18].
  • social engineering's KBpedia ID is recorded as SocialEngineering-PoliticalScience[19].
  • social engineering's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2993103859[20].
  • social engineering's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as pjdh3v3u[21].
  • social engineering's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/29521d08-f182-4a92-b52b-f1fd71fa37e4[22].

Why It Matters

social engineering draws 193 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #179 of 1,010).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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