Definition: Thermodynamics of human relation systems is the study of the macroscopic consequences of myriads of individual actions on the interdependence coordinates within human relation systems, which, by virtue of statistical averaging, do not appear explicitly in the macroscopic description of a system. 

Although much of the "microscopic" actions of individuals may be hidden from the direct observations of a macroscopic viewer, they can affect macroscopic observables.  One such clear example deals with the concept of relation energy.  The internal relation kinetic energy of a human system is determined by the rate of change of relationships between entities.  Clearly a given human system can transfer some of its internal relation energy to another human system, i.e.  it can do relation work on another human system.  It is equally possible for this internal relation kinetic energy to be individual random motion that at the macroscopic level is observable as relation heat.  Much of organization thermodynamics is concerned with relation heat transfer. 

With this qualitative introduction I shall now turn to certain definitions necessary for a theoretical development.

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