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