СОЦИАЛЬНАЯ СТАБИЛЬНОСТЬ КИТАЙСКИХ ПРОВИНЦИЙ (НА МАТЕРИАЛАХ ГОРОДА ЖИЧЖАО)

Abstract

The article updates the need to consider social stability as the basis of social development, the success of which is measured by the population satisfaction with the level, quality and standards of life. The purpose of the work is the empirical confirmation of the universality of indicators of population satisfaction with socio-economic and socio-political aspects of life in maintaining social stability. By social stability we understand the stable state of society with the preservation of the legitimacy and effectiveness of social institutions in the presence of the potential for social development, manifested in the preservation and improvement of living conditions of the population, regardless of external influences on society and emerging changes within it. The evidence is based on the results of a sociological study conducted at the Department of Sociology and Social Technologies, which reflects the features of the social life of provincial Chinese cities both in comparison with Chinese megacities and in comparison with Russian provincial cities using the example of Chinese Rizhao and Russian Orel. A special place in the work is given to identifying universal factors of social stability, such as socio-political and socio-economic. It is summarized that social problems in Chinese provincial cities are in many ways similar to those in Russia, and the factors of social stability are universal.