Social engineering is the intervention or the art of manipulating a scientific movement from a certain ideal vision which is intended to influence social change, it can be either good or bad and can also be honesty, it can be a lie.
Social change is done because of the emergence of social problems as a difference between das sollen (which should be) and das sein (which is real). Collective action to solve social problems (collective action to solve social problems). Usually marked by changes in form and functionalization of important groups, institutions or social arrangements.
Compared to social planning, it is broader or more pragmatic, because an engineering always contains planning, but not all planning is implemented until it is implemented in the real world. Similarly, when compared with change management, it has more definite meaning, because if the object of management can be interpreted as a change in a broad sense, while the object of social engineering is clear, namely social change towards a new order and system in accordance with what the engineer wants.
In addition to the above understanding, social engineering can also be interpreted as a process of planning, mapping and implementation in the context of changing the structure and culture of a social base of society.