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The author states that (a) political engineering is the most important part of social engineering; (b) the cognitive fundaments of social engineering are: praxiology, history, and anthropology. The rules of political engineering are also addressed: (a) those that are used in various space-temporal conditions of human mutual relations; (b) those that are applied in certain periods; (c) those that appear in some political games with use of social engineering. It is also stated that true 'homo politicus' is an political engineer. To the end the importance of the 'Methodological note' (W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki) included in the book 'Chlop polski w Europie i Ameryce' is addressed.