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Abstract— Like every biotic, species mankind constitutes an extremely complex nonequilibrium system. This paper tries to gain an insight into its structure. Recognizable organizational patterns are the definable social populations (family, community, urban population, people, cultural population, etc.); they are ordered hierarchically. The social population is in itself a nonequilibrium system. Its structure can most appropriately be achieved by reducing it to the essentials and establishing a model. Within this "basic system" the flow of information and energy, the structuring processes connected with self‐organization etc. is described by a set of formulae (Tabs. 1–4; Fig. 1). The "basic system" can be regarded as a module that can also be used to form complex structures, above all the superior nonequilibrium system: Mankind as society (Fig. 2). This is a task for the future.