New Exploration Of Qian Xuesen's Social Engineering Ideas

More and more experts and scholars have paid great attention to the research field of social engineering philosophy in recently years, and a number of scholars have already weighed in with their own opinions as well as further developed and researched the thinking and questioning of engineering philosophy.In the late 1970s, the science master, Professor Qian Xuesen with profound philosophical foundation, who had proposed the concept of Social Engineering for the first time, have fully mastered our national conditions at that time to raise the great theory of Social Engineering based on Chinese development situation of social economy and science and technology.Qian Xuesen's contribution to the concept of social engineering has already recognized internationally. Moreover, the concept has been learned and spread by more and more scholars around the world. Qian Xuesen had always wanted to achieve the objective that applying the new concept and idea of social engineering to operate the economy, promote social progress and maintain the society functioning, which was also the wish he had been keeping at the bottom of his heart for years.Qian Xuesen thought, "As a practical activity, social engineering not only localizes on small range of activities, such as a family, a group and a company, but also contains a wide range of activities, such the whole society and the whole nation.' Social engineering can resolve various contradictions of social movement and improve production relations and superstructure as well as offer an effective solution which has a clear objective, makes a long-term program for the development and design a blueprint for action.Qian Xuesen applied principle of Marxism to analyze social engineering which also can prove that the Marxist thought of social system is scientific as well as elaborate and define social engineering. Social engineering requires not only their own theoretical support but also support of other various subjects, which are closely linked to each others. In this way, people recognize the social engineering increasingly and they apply it to the practice of production and life flexibly.To research the formation and produce of social engineering, to make theoretical basis and framework for the possibilities of real needs, as well as to generalize and summarize the significance and features based on the understanding of Qian Xuesen's social engineering ideas, getting the new inspiration further and developing the philosophy of engineering.The paper sets out from Qian Xuesen's scientific system, and resolve the possibility and real need of social engineering based on the practice. It mainly study the transformation from Social Technology to Social Engineering and the development, exploration of modern complex system, the formation of scientific systems engineering as well as features and significance of social engineering.