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Dimirovski, G. M. (Dogus Author) -- Conference full title: 17th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC; Seoul; South Korea; 6 July 2008 through 11 July 2008. ; Scientists and societal leaders increasingly agree that human activity is irretrievably changing the environment in which human life and other life forms co-exist. Action to reduce human impact on the environment is an imperative prerequisite to achieving social stability. Accelerating migration patterns due to environmental stress and population pressure have been associated with emerging conflicts. Population movement from rural areas to megacities may weaken social structures and create social chaos. Traditional dogmas, whether ethnic, religious or political, must be re-thought in this changing context if global society is to avoid collapse in a weakening ecosystem.

Consistencies about issues relating to human social interaction, mutual awareness, social norm and social order all smack of social stability. Theories addressing social issues abound and remain crucial for the development and advancement of human society. The social stability of any given society could be the result of a process of which commencement was beak and murky but traversed hurdles of varied social problems. As an important factor for political stability, social stability is an ingredient of national sovereignty of which itself is the minor of natural of national identity. The extent to which the content of social stability applies to Nigerian national sovereignty remains focus of the piece. Could Nigeria actually boast of sovereignty with viable social stability? The possible answer produces the question of whether the country is enmeshed in any form of identity crises.

Several explosions launched by discontented individuals in politically significant locations became the new manifestation of social instability in 2013. The Third Plenum's Decision announced a series of reforms for the Letters and Visits System and the termination of the Re-education through Labour System. The new Xi Jinping-Li Keqiang leadership will continue with the dual strategies of repression and liberation to maintain social stability in its tenure.

The Chinese government has expanded efforts to maintain regime stability with a recently developed strategy of "social management." It is a modification of the existing "maintaining stability" system which has turned out to be incompetent and socioeconomically costly. This new strategy attempts to manage growing civil society with provision of social services, more flexible control of various social sectors and new policy of social organisations.

PurposeThe stability maintenance system has played an essential role in maintaining social stability although it also has brought about social problems worthy of attention. Admittedly compensation-based stability maintenance policy can address the appeals of citizens whose rights are infringed and the dissolving effect in the provision of compensation can save the cost of stability maintenance but such stability maintenance system lacks equilibrium.Design/methodology/approachThe establishment of a strict assessment system for stability maintenance performance can encourage the stability maintenance authorities to eliminate the "fuse effect" as much as possible and ensure the effective implementation of the stability maintenance system. However, the rigorous stability maintenance performance assessment also provides the possibility for profit-driven petitions.FindingsDue to the continuous accumulation of social dissatisfaction and the lack of stability maintenance equilibrium in the implementation of the compensation-based stability maintenance policy, public governance will fall into a stability maintenance paradox of "greater instability resulting from stability maintenance".Originality/valueThe provision of sufficient means for the people to protect their interest by implementing measures such as strengthening the rule of law mechanisms is the key to achieve long-term social stability.

Abstract Emil Durkheim published The Division of Labour in Society as part of his strategy to create a place for sociology as a science independent from economics. The book describes how social cohesion and cooperation evolve spontaneously in the course of the process of the division of labour. Friedrich Hayek developed a theory of markets and competition which was later extended into a theory of society, in which spontaneous evolution is a central element. The main force behind this process is competition and the evolution of coordination. Both authors address the problem of social stability. Hayek rejects Durkheim's analysis as constructivistic, but his criticism is unjustified. Further analysis reveals many similarities between the two authors theories of societal evolution. A striking point of convergence is that Hayek's theory of markets is a network theory, and that sociological network theory is directly inspired by Durkheim's work. The main differences are Hayek's emphasis on the division of knowledge and on coordination as the fundamental stabilising forces as opposed to Durkheim's stress on the division of labour and cooperation. The network approach, together with an elaboration of Hayek's psychology, offer perspectives for integrating coordination and cooperation into a unified theory of social stability.