A Horizontal Look At Social Entropy Entropy - disorder - refers to how heat is stored and dissipates as life flourishes or recedes. There is also a role for entropy in social science. Fifty years ago, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen educated economists on what entropy meant to economics and ecological process, almost a decade after Kenneth E. Boulding considered what we might do with an entropic index of organization and knowledge if we devised one. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. In an interdependent world, we connect with and bump against each other in every action we take. How we manage to keep peace in this storm of interactivity is a question we need to address. It turns on how we mesh with folks surrounding us in our plans and activities, which is an issue of functional organization and social system design. Strife is symptomatic of failure, raising questions of form, framing, culture and human nature.