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Topic: Social stability

	Social capital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social capital is a concept with a variety of inter-related definitions, based on the value of social networks.
		Social capital "refers to the collective value of all 'social networks' and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other," according to Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone and the concept's leading exponent (though not its originator).
		Social meaning: relating to human society and how it is organized and capital defined as: economics material wealth in the form of money or property, identifies the meaning as societal wealth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_capital (1422 words)

	Stability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social stability, lack of civil unrest in a society
		Stable isotopes, chemical isotopes that are not radioactive
		Stable polynomial, a polynomial whose roots all lie in the open left half-plane or whose roots all lie in the open unit disk
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stability (235 words)

	Mallon: Social Construction, Social Roles, and Stability
		For example, a social constructionist might try explaining racial difference by simultaneously undermining explanations of racial difference that appealed to biological differences among members of different races, and instead explaining what differences there are in terms of the different social roles occupied by members of different races in a racialized society.
		A social role, as I use the term, is a particular sort of niche, distinguished by its occupant being acted upon by special sorts of conceptual or linguistic causes.
		Social roles, but not necessarily important niches, are conceptualized by those whose lives the social roles order, and it is because they are so conceptualized that the role has causal power.
	www.philosophy.utah.edu /faculty/mallon/Materials/scsrs.html (10886 words)

	McNair Paper 42 - Chapter 2
		At the same time, old ideals of egalitarianism, social justice, and consensus are being replaced by a new value system emphasizing the virtues of social differentiation and stressing the principle of survival of the fittest.
		The likelihood of social conflict has also increased as a result of growing social differentiation and a resulting polarization between a small wealthy elite and an increasing majority of the population who live in poverty or are close to the poverty line.
		Social frustration and disorientation have been exacerbated by widespread fears that prices will continue to rise, and by the growing conviction that the growth of criminal activities will allow organized crime to increase its control over the country.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/McNair/mcnair42/m042ch02.html (1346 words)

	Family Crisis and Social Stability - Paul Piccone
		The new models, however, are more adequate to the new logic of advanced industrial societies where they function more or less effectively as mechanisms of social integration, guaranteeing an otherwise difficult to attain high level of social stability in the midst of growing inequality, nihilism, and corruption.
		Yet, to fully understand the emergence of new models of the family, it is not sufficient simply to identify the social forces precipitating the transformations.
		Rather, the present predicament in the coexistence of a plurality of family models generate a variety of contradictory social dynamics that may be better comprehended by examining how classical socialist criticism of the traditional family brought about unintended consequences.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1986/december/Sa10392.htm (284 words)

	American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The: Two Views on Social Stability: An Unsettled Question
		The main differences are Hayek's emphasis on the division of knowled ge and on coordination as the fundamental stabilizing forces as opposed to Durkheim's stress on the division of labour and cooperation.
		The scientific object of Durkheim's investigation in DTS is the explanation of social stability.
		Not only is modern society highly stable, it also harbours mechanisms that enable its members to benefit from its possibilities for self-deployment whose scope and level are unmatched in human history.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0254/is_4_58/ai_58496758 (1443 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Diab: Only social justice, stability can lead to development
		Social Affairs Minister Asaad Diab said Tuesday that social justice and stability are needed to achieve sustained social development and improved healthcare services.
		“Security and political stability have been achieved, but this achievement cannot be complete or permanent unless it is accompanied by progress on the social and health levels,” Diab said on behalf of President Emile Lahoud at the third annual conference for the Confederation of Health Mutual Funds at the UN House in Beirut.
		The minister said successful social and health sectors needed planning, knowledge and dedication, and called for rationed spending in the health sector and coordination between the concerned parties.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0310/03101507DS.asp (273 words)

	The Effects of the Interaction of Formal and Informal Institutions on Social Stability and Economic Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We observe that the standard of living, economic stability, and growth rates are not the same in India and Japan, Germany and Portugal, the Czech republic and the Ukraine.
		The more property rights a person has in a good, the closer his or her private cost is to the social costs of using that good, and the more incentives that person has for seeking the highest-valued use for the asset.
		The economy is therefore assumed to have … none of the many social institutions that are created by societies to help coordinate their economic and social activities by offering information not available in competitive prices.
	www.acton.org /publicat/m_and_m/1999_fall/pejovich.html (6940 words)

	Sofia Declaration - ILO - Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia: Geneva (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We, the Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs and the leaders of the social partners of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
		Every effort should be made to promote economic objectives through the realization of social objectives since sustainable economic prosperity depends on a sound social basis and accordingly to ensure that the necessary investments are made in social protection.
		The Social Partners of SEE advocate the creation of a "Council for Economic and Social Cooperation" at Government level and, in order to strenghten economic and social development and the social dialogue mechanisms in the SEE, with an Advisory Institution composed of representatives of the social partners.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/region/eurpro/geneva/about/iba/sofdecl.htm (1471 words)

	Stability Pact Social Cohesion Initiative Workshop and Working Group Meetings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The workshop was followed by a meeting of the Stability Pact SCI Working Group on February 21st, which was convened by the Office of the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact.
		The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe was adopted at the G8 Conference in Koln, Germany, on 10 June 1999.
		Several speakers highlighted that although projects with regional dimension should be encouraged, national projects were equally important as the consolidation of social development in one country contributes to the overall regional stability and improvement of the welfare of the people in the entire region.
	lnweb18.worldbank.org /ECA/ECSSD.nsf/202868b43cae904480256abf0038f1f0/419049b955d0dcf185256bb90069e443?OpenDocument (1723 words)

	Stability Pact: Initiative for Social Cohesion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The overall objective is to is to address social issues that affect the daily lives of citizens of South Eastern Europe through regional approaches in the field of health, social protection, employment policy and vocational training, social dialogue and housing.
		Social cohesion and development are essential contributing factors to lasting political and social stability, as well as economic development in the SEE countries.
		Reforms in the social sector are an essential condition for the success of the region's integration in European and international structures.
	www.stabilitypact.org /soc-cohesion (468 words)

	Why Religion Matters: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability
		If such a stable family life is linked closely to a lively religious life, as these studies indicate, then the peace and happiness of the nation depend significantly on a renewal of religious practice and belief.
		From a purely social science standpoint, the intrinsic form of religion is thus good and desirable, and the extrinsic form is harmful.
		McNamara continues: "In [the] typical social science analysis, the demands of the inner life are neglected and personal agency and autonomy exercised in the choice to examine one's own life and put it in order according to an internalized ethic of repentance...
	www.nd.edu /~afreddos/courses/180/fagan.htm (12720 words)

	Identity cards and social stability
		This stability and freedom exists in Britain because of the way British society is constructed and maintained.
		In the intervening 100 years the social structures of the country have radically altered, with enormous changes in the ownership of land, the rights of individuals and the ethnicity of the population.
		Unlike our near neighbours and distant friends, we have not had civil war, we have remained free from the recent terrors of fascism and communism, we have not experienced genocide, we do not live in a state where oppression and injustice is routine and unbearable, and our nation has not disintegrated.
	www.biometricidentitycards.info /articles/SocialStability.htm (2912 words)

	(DV) Sandronsky: For Social Security, Stability or Volatility?
		The planned Social Security cuts of the Bush plan would be largest for our youngest workers, according to economist Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
		Bush plans to freeze current Social Security benefits versus increasing them in step with the rate of real wages, projected to grow by 1.1 percent a year.
		Crucially, retirees are the majority of the U.S. population who benefit from the stable Social Security system.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Jan05/Sandronsky0116.htm (1136 words)

	Dramatic Rise in Bombings Threatens Social Stability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the process our freedoms and rights will be compromised all in the name of trying to stop something that one of the most repressive governments in the world cannot stop.
		A European diplomat based in Beijing said that while the growing social tension was indisputable, the violence was for the moment "isolated acts" that the authorities could handle.
		The people who planted the bomb were probably unhappy with the social situation and wanted revenge," said the director of the Yizhang People's Hospital.
	www.pacificnet.net /jue/chinanews/docs/990129b.html (951 words)

	Authorities Warn Cult Against Threatening "Social Stability"
		BEIJING -- China warned followers of a cult-like martial arts group on Wednesday that they would be punished if they jeopardized social stability and called their 10,000-strong weekend protest "wrong".
		"Those who damage social stability under the pretext of practicing martial arts will be dealt with in accordance with the law," the official said in an interview with the state news agency Xinhua.
		Sunday's protest highlighted concerns among the leadership of social unrest in a politically sensitive year, which includes the 10th anniversary of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in which hundreds of people were killed.
	www.rickross.com /reference/fa_lun_gong/falun10.html (568 words)

	Social Stability in the United States
		US population policy is fueling the high number of births taking place outside of wedlock and the consequent high number of single parent families.
		In recent years American social scientists have demonstrated again and again the negative effects of divorce on children.
		As the Clinton Administration heads into the UN Cairo conference on population issues, it is strongly advocating policies that have had a deleterious effect on the US population.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/population/pc0006.html (1410 words)

	Why Religion Matters: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability -- Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When policymakers consider America's grave social problems, including violent crime and rising illegitimacy, substance abuse, and welfare dependency, they should heed the findings in the professional literature of the social sciences on the positive consequences that flow from the practice of religion.
		The fact is that too many social scientists have failed to appreciate the significance of research on the relationship between family and religion.
		Despite this general hostility among social science and mental health professionals, the empirical evidence shows religion to be a very powerful and positive part of everyday life.
	christianparty.net /mdfagan.htm (12500 words)

	In China, stresses spill over into riots \| csmonitor.com
		Certainly the campaign for the "construction of a harmonious society" itself indicates a newly recognized lack of social harmony at the official level, experts say, in a country where "stability" is a paramount value.
		Whether the strikes are a harbinger of larger social crises is a cause for debate in Beijing.
		Social inequities are serious, as is current anger at local (though not yet central) government.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1122/p01s03-woap.html (1154 words)

	Brigham Young University Law Review: Religious Pluralism, Cultural Differences, and Social Stability in Nigeria
		Addressing these issues is important because the right to travel, the right of entry, and the right of residence are the main instruments of integration among the ECOWAS nations.14 This freedom of movement within the subregion promotes subregional cohesion, but it also threatens the Nigerian state's unity.
		Even when Christianity's presence was relatively new in Nigeria, the religious differences it introduced brought a new world view that upset the social stability of the communities.
		Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, captures the cultural conflict, social trauma, and destabilization caused by the introduction of Christianity into the Nigerian communities through his fictional character Okonkwo who gives a vivid description of the prevailing social situation in Umuofia, a village representing the Igbo world at the time of Christianity's introduction.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3736/is_200401/ai_n9352416 (932 words)

	China income gap threatens social stability, UN says - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BEIJING -- A yawning gap between rich and poor in China is seriously threatening social stability, the United Nations said in a report Friday and urged the government to address the problem.
		In 2003, the income of a family's main wage earner in urban China was three times higher than a rural wage earner, the report said, while adding that that number was probably an underestimate and closer to four times bigger.
		The most vulnerable groups were poor rural residents, urban workers laid off from state-owned enterprises and an army of migrant workers that were estimated to be as many as 140 million people in 2004, it said.
	news.inq7.net /world/index.php?index=1&story_id=60203 (704 words)

	Women Not A Threat To Social Stability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		“What threatens social stability is social injustice which is in our case illustrated by the fact that the ratio of per capital income between the top five percent of the population and the bottom 50% is approximately 50:1,” the Deputy Minister said.
		She said Namibia is one of the most unequal societies in the world with huge social disparities, warning that if those disparities are not addressed fast enough then citizens have every reason to worry about social stability.
		The Deputy Minister emphasized that there is a need to continue the policies of a socially committed and caring State, and added that such reforms would tend to narrow the gaps between the rich and the poor.
	www.grnnet.gov.na /News/Archive/2002/August/Week3/women.htm (325 words)

	Xunzi (Hsün Tzu) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Xunzi diagnosed the main cause of disorder as a breakdown of the social hierarchy.
		The way to put limits on this competition is to clarify social distinctions: such as between ruler and subject, between older brother and younger brother, or between men and women.
		The point of all these rules is to enforce the distinctions necessary for social harmony and prevent people from reaching beyond their station.
	www.iep.utm.edu /x/xunzi.htm (5952 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - For Social Security, Stability or Volatility? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Currently, many American workers older than 55 who should be in such cruise control instead are living with income instability as a result of their volatile private pensions.
		Thus current retirees’ purchasing power is less stable than was my father’s.
		Further, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office states that Social Security is funded adequately for about five more decades from today.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/view/553/1/46 (1085 words)

	Inequality a threat to social stability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		SOUTH AFRICA: Inequality a threat to social stability
		Compiled by various academics as part of a study by the Ecumenical Foundation of Southern Africa (EFSA), it argues that social stability is at risk because of growing inequality.
		Unless we have a long-term policy to address these people not being picked up in the in normal, formal economy, we cannot increase social stability," Koegelenberg concluded.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=42356 (887 words)

	NCPA Social Policy - POSITIVE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON SOCIAL STABILITY
		Participants found increasing agreement between Catholic social doctrine and modern economics on such fundamental questions as the need for growth and opportunity, the unparalleled importance of the family and the idea that people are assets -- not liabilities.
		When Pope John Paul II talked about the right to economic initiative and put it at the heart of his economic letter, the words he used are close to the definition of capitalism used by Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker, one of the conference participants.
		When Becker defines economic growth as the opportunity that gives young people the jobs and means to start their own families, he found a sympathetic ear in Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, sponsor of the conference.
	www.ncpa.org /pd/social/sociale.html (751 words)

	Has Conservatism been more concerned with social stability than with economic freedom?
		One nation strand advocates that for social stability to be preserved economic intervention should be endorsed.
		However on the other hand it can be said that conservatism has been concerned with economic freedom as can be seen from the rise of the New Right strand in particular neo liberalism has allowed a greater concern for economic freedom than social stability.
		Here we can see that Thatcher would advocate that to sustain social stability everyone needs to be economically independent through free markets etc. The welfare state was implied to create a "nanny culture" as it resulted in a loss in a loss of dignity and self-respect.
	www.coursework.info /i/57424.html (410 words)

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