Social forecasting and design. Tutorial

In this textbook, the understanding of the future is based on the thesis that a person in his processes of perception, thinking and activity does not so much reflect the world around him as actively creating it. The world is constructed by people not only on the basis of objective facts, but also on the basis of experiences and understanding the experience of everyday life, the experience of a joint solution to problems.
Forecasting and design is considered as two phases of the unified process of constructing the “image of the future " - the definition of the trends of changes in the present and the construction of acuteous scenarios of possible future changes.
Such an understanding of forecasting and design coincides in its content with social management, with the control of cognitive processes of coordination as a vision, interpretation of the situation, and the process of goal -setting, coordination of the goals of various subjects.
The tutorial is focused on bachelors in the specialties "Sociology", "Social Work", "Management", as well as to masters in the specialty "Sociology of Management". The book can be interesting and useful to everyone who is interested in the issues of improving social systems and designing a comfortable environment that promotes human self -development