 Crisis as a Societal Entropic MarkEmil Dinga
Chapter Chapter 3 in Economic Resilience During Overlapped Crises, 2025, pp 169-204 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter tries to assign the concept (and the property) of entropy to the concept of societal (generic) crisis, to find an entropic mark of perceiving, and, if possible, of managing, at the societal level the crisis phenomenology. After discussing how the standard (i.e., Thermodynamical) concept of entropy is used (and, as it seems, supra-used) in social sciences, primarily in the economic field, the concept of order is introduced and analytically examined to find a logical relation between the economic/social order and the economic/social entropy. In such a way own concept of entropy is proposed for the social field, connected to the normative framework and, based on it, the concept of crisicity is introduced in discussion. Finally, the three concepts—entropy, order and crisicity—are put together and a conceptual “map” of the society (societal system) is obtained by the logical (and psychological and institutional) relationships and interactions among the three concepts. All these findings are used, then, to assign them to the typology of the societal (generic) crisis, as established in Chap. 2 . Date: 2025 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-80224-9_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-80224-9_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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