In HT pioneers, the sociological (thermodynamics pioneers) TPs page is a file-tree header for grouping individuals, ordered in the dropbox to the left, in the category of pioneers of sociological thermodynamics, social thermodynamics, or socio-thermodynamics, in the general sense.

Sociological thermodynamicists
Some of the main sociological thermodynamicists are listed below:

  1. Ernest Solvay (1894) - noted for his promotion of the science of social energetics.
  2. Vilfredo Pareto (1896) - developed physical chemistry based social system models of "human molecules".
  3. Lester Ward (1841-1913) - noted for his advocation of Leon Winarski's thermodynamics in sociology.
  4. Lawrence Henderson (1935) - explained Pareto's 1916 sociology via Gibbsian thermodynamics "analogies".
  5. Talcott Parsons (1937) - noted for his social action theory and its relation to the laws of thermodynamics.
  6. Pitirim Sorokin (1941) attempted to relate or base his social cycle theory on Clausius entropy and heat death.
  7. Reinhold Furth (1951) - outlined the application of statistical mechanics to sociology.
  8. Fred Cottrell (1955) - supposedly, one of the first to explain societies as thermodynamic systems.
  9. Niklas Luhmann (1960s) - a student of Parsons, noted for his views on entropy in his social systems theory.
  10. Eugene Ruyle (1960s) developed a theory of "social thermodynamics".
  11. Walter Buckley (1967) - utilized negentropy, culled from general systems theory, in theorizing about social decline.
  12. Robert Nisbet (1970) - outlined a theory of "social entropy" and the entropy aspects of the "social bond".
  13. Marlan Blissett (1972) - wrote a chapter on the "laws of social thermodynamics".
  14. Jacques Ellul (1972) - theorized about entropy in modern society.
  15. Edgar Morin (1977) - known as the sociologist of complexity theory.
  16. Ed Stephan (1977) - began to speculate on how the Gibbs fundamental equation applies to social systems.
  17. Orrin Klapp (1978) outlined a Shannon-thermodynamics type theory of "entropic communication".
  18. Wil Lepkowski (1979) - argues that Prigoginean thermodynamics can lead to the development of social thermodynamics.
  19. James Beniger (1986) - outlined a Maxwell's demon view of societies as eddies or currents in the heat flow of the sun.
  20. Tony Rothman (1989) - applied creative skepticism to sociological applications of the second law of thermodynamics.
  21. Kenneth Bailey (1990) - published a social entropy theory.
  22. William Gairdner (1994) - outlined a theory of social entropic force acting on societies, moving them towards heat death.
  23. Josip Stepanić (2000) - published thermodynamics of social systems theories, e.g. social free energy.
  24. Alfredo Infante (2001) - wrote an advanced intelligence perspective, Gibbs free energy based, social entropy article.
  25. Ingo Müller (2002) - developed a phase diagram view of "socio-thermodynamics".
  26. Enzo Tiezzi (2006) - applied Prigoginean thermodynamics to view cities as being "orders out of chaos".
  27. Adrian Bejan (2007) - applied his thermodynamics-based constructal theory to the explanation of social dynamics.

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