What is social entropy?

Question

some examples of social entropy would be helpful.

Answer 1

Is a measure of the natural decay of the structure or of the disappearance of distinctions within a social system. Much of the energy consumed by a social organization is spent to maintain its structure, counteracting social entropy, e.g., through legal institutions, education, the normative consequences or television. anomie is the maximum state of social entropy. (Krippendorff)

try also this
http://www.nexialinstitute.com/social_entropy.htm
http://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/misc/science/sociocybernetics/WG01/Bailey_Paper

Answer 2

Social entropy is a measure of the natural decay of the structure or of the disappearance of distinctions within a social system. Much of the energy consumed by a social organization is spent to maintain its structure, counteracting social entropy, e.g., through legal institutions, education, the normative consequences or television.
One of the key points for a rapid increase of the social entropy is the degree of civil disobedience, expressing information about internal dissatisfaction and encouraging chaos and giving rise to the eventual “birth” of leaders in a particular scenario. Consequently, we may see that social disorder comes from social dissatisfaction, hence social entropy exists and may be calculated if we are able to deduce mathematical relationships for it. Fortunately for us, we did not have to dig too deep in order to find it.

Answer 3

Social entropy refers to the Inevitable and steady deterioration of a society. A good example of social entropy would be the old Soviet Union and Rome.

Answer 4

social entropy is otherwise known as death and decay.

all sectors of society suffer from entropy, its what happens when we have a static system with no new input, it becomes isolated and stagnant, and eventually dies, because of ineptitude or ignorance...

and the British Empire is a fine example of systemic entropy, the romans empire, and teh Kahn dynasty all went thru their ups, and their downs, just like america will in the near future...

all societies begin small, and they expand, both in population and they expand their borders... entropy regualtes the expansion.. if you get spread too thin, as in the roman model, it collapses under its first "real" onslaught as it cannot respond.

in recent times look to Germany and Russia, Japan and China...

Answer 5

the burning out of social concience, morality, clarity and endurance all at once over a period of many mallinia.

Answer 6

I reckon malingering fits the bill