Entropy (Sep 2020)

Social Entropy and Normative Network

  • Emil Dinga,
  • Cristina-Roxana Tănăsescu,
  • Gabriela-Mariana Ionescu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e22091051
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 9
p. 1051

Abstract

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The paper introduces a new concept of social entropy and a new concept of social order, both based on the normative framework of society. From these two concepts, typologies (logical and historical) of societies are inferred and examined in their basic features. To these ends, some well-known concepts such as entropy, order, system, network, synergy, norm, autopoieticity, fetality, and complexity are revisited and placed into an integrated framework. The core body of this paper addresses the structure and the mechanism of social entropy, understood as an institutionally working counterpart of social order. Finally, this paper concludes that social entropy is an artefact, like society itself, and acts through people’s behavior.

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