CULTURAL ENGINEERING

CULTURAL ENGINEERING
   A phrase not especially common in sf TERMINOLOGY, although what it refers to is fundamental to the genre. The idea of humans deliberately altering the nature of alien cultures (or of aliens doing it to us), or indeed of doing the same to isolated cultures on Earth, is often evoked in sf, sometimes approvingly, more often disapprovingly. This is especially so in stories in which ANTHROPOLOGY, COLONIZATION OF OTHER WORLDS and SOCIOLOGY are dominant themes. A common form of cultural engineering in sf is the TIME-TRAVEL or PARALLEL-WORLDS story (often both at once) in which some sort of time-police force attempts to engineer past, future or ALTERNATE WORLDS into the most stable and productive conformations. Sf itself can be seen as a form of sublimated cultural engineering in its persistent modelling of societies that differ from our own.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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