title: Large-scale societal changes and intentionality - an uneasy marriage.
abstract: Our commentary focuses on juxtaposing the proposed science of intentional change with facts and concepts pertaining to the level of large populations or changes on a worldwide scale. Although we find a unified evolutionary theory promising, we think that long-term and large-scale, scientifically guided - that is, intentional - social change is not only impossible, but also undesirable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Psychology,Faculty of Social Sciences,Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE),H-1117 Budapest,Hungary.peter.bodor@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bodor
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology,Faculty of Social Sciences,Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)fokasznikosz@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fokas
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D001527:Behaviorism; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans