Rozin, V. M. Social Technology ‘Foresight’ or Politics and Society?

Abstract: The article is devoted to the two topics. First, Rozin discusses the concept of Foresight and compares it to the concept of social action based on the ideas of politics and society. At the same time, the author analyzes anthropological interpretations of human in modern philosophy and views the difference between politics and the social engineering action. According to the author, the former involves personality and society while the latter involves a social engineer and human as an object of such action. Independently or based on experts, a social engineer decides how others should live and what they should do while personality and society decide for themselves. A social engineering action is based on rules of nature (in this case, what human is and how human changes) developed by scientists and politically triggered by social engineering. A political action is formed in the process of communication of personalities, each personality tries to propose their own idea for others and society. The methodological basis for the research involves the following: problematization, situational and comparative analysis, categorization and case study. As a result, the author shows that the social-engineering variant of Foresight has a number of drawbacks. The author underlines that it is inefficient to view ‘general human’ instead of particular individuals. The author stresses out the need for further anthropological researches on the matter.

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