Stepanić, Jr.; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Žebec, Mislav-Stjepan; Peračković, Krešimir (2000) Approach to a Quantitative Description of Social Systems Based on Thermodynamic Formalism. Entropy (Basel. Online), 2 (3). pp. 98-105. ISSN 1099-4300
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Abstract
Certain statistical aspects of social systems are described by appropriately defined quantities named social potentials. Relations between social potentials are postulated by drawing an analogy with thermodynamics relations between thermodynamic potentials, thus obtaining a toy model of some of the statistical properties of social systems. Within this model, an interpretation of a socially relevant acting (acting as opposed to action, see ref. [1]) that does not invoke structural changes in social systems, is given in terms of social potentials.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | social systems theory ; thermodynamics ; social potentials ; entropy and temperature of social systems |
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Mathematics |
| Divisions: | Theoretical Physics Division |
| Depositing User: | Hrvoje Štefančić |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2020 09:51 |
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/5292 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/e2030098 |
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