Social Stability Research Articles

РОЗВИТОК ІНВЕСТИЦІЙНОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ ДЕРЖАВИ

Abstract. The article highlights the current issues of development of investment security of the state. It was determined that today's special conditions pose challenges to strengthening the investment security of the state. Proven investment activity at the global level. The result of such activity is a real increase in investment flows from partner countries.
 The components of investment security are systematized: the legal environment, which is characterized by regulated regulatory and legal support, without regulatory collisions and contradictions of individual legal norms; economic and political stability; the stability of the macroeconomic environment, which includes stable inflation, low unemployment, and economic growth; developed infrastructure, which is necessary for making effective investments; geopolitical risks, which include international conflicts, sanctions, trade restrictions; innovative activity that contributes to the creation of competitive industries and attracting investments; social stability, which ensures social justice, balanced development of society, improvement of investment security.
 The development of scientific schools that investigate the issue of investment security is studied. The most famous scientific schools are systematized, in particular: the school of risk-oriented investment management, the school of financial security, which studies the financial aspects of the investment process, financial risks, models of financial asset valuation and financial flow management, the school of political economy, which investigates the influence of political factors on investment activity , a school of international relations, a school of normative and legal regulation, which studies the legal aspects of financial markets.
 It has been proven that scientific schools contribute to the development and improvement of the theory and practice of investment security through the study of various aspects of this issue from different scientific approaches.
 The methods, goals, forms and tools of influence on state regulation of the level of investment security are defined. It is proposed to solve priority problems for strengthening the investment security of the state. The directions of further scientific research in the field of investment security are outlined.

Behavioral decision-making of government, agricultural product producers, and consumers on agricultural product quality and safety regulation in a digital environment.

The quality and safety of agricultural products are related to people's lives and health, economic development, and social stability, and have always been a hot issue of concern to the government and society. The rapid development of digital traceability technology in the digital environment has brought new opportunities for the supervision of agricultural product quality and safety, but the frequent occurrence of agricultural product safety incidents in recent years has exposed many problems such as the lack of governmental supervision, unstandardized production process of enterprises, and weak consumer awareness. To improve the cooperation efficiency of stakeholders and ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products, this paper proposes a dynamic model based on evolutionary game theory. The model incorporates the government, agricultural product producers, and farmers, and evaluates the stability and effectiveness of the system under different circumstances. The results of the study show that there are multiple evolutionary stabilization strategies in the tripartite evolutionary game model of agricultural product quality and safety supervision, and there are corresponding evolutionary stabilization conditions. There are several factors affecting the stability of the system, the most important of which are government regulation, severe penalties for agricultural product producers, and incentives. When these factors reach a certain threshold, the stakeholder cooperation mechanism can establish an evolutionarily stable strategy. This study contributes to the understanding of the operational mechanism of stakeholder cooperation in agricultural product quality and safety regulation in the digital environment and provides decision support and policy recommendations for stakeholders to promote the sustainable development and optimization of agricultural product quality and safety regulation.

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Social Governance

As AI technology continues to evolve, it plays an increasingly significant role in everyday life and social governance. However, the frequent occurrence of issues such as algorithmic bias, privacy breaches, and data leaks has led to a crisis of trust in AI among the public, presenting numerous challenges to social governance. Establishing technical trust in AI, reducing uncertainties in AI development, and enhancing its effectiveness in social governance have become a consensus among policymakers and researchers. By comparing different types of AI, the paper proposes and conceptualizes the idea of trustworthy AI, then discusses its characteristics and its value and impact pathways in social governance. The analysis addresses how mismatches in technological trust can affect social stability and the advancement of AI strategies. The paper highlights the potential of trustworthy AI to improve the efficiency of social governance and solve complex social problems.

Research on the Evolution Trend of Group Psychological Security Risks Under Public Health Emergencies: Mining and Analysis Based on Social Media Data.

In the digital age, people's attitudes and psychological security towards public health emergencies will be shared. Similar or identical psychological security states are prone to clustering and differentiation, while differentiated group psychological security is more prone to polarization, leading to group psychological security risks and then posing a threat to social stability and national security. However, existing studies mostly use qualitative analysis methods to study group emotional risks. There are still limitations in the study of dynamics of group psychological security risks through mining real data of social media. The study aims to use intelligent analysis methods to understand how group psychological security risks dynamically change. The study draws on text sentiment analysis, Markov chains and time series analysis to construct a framework for the evolution of group psychological security risks. Based on this framework, text data was crawled on Sina Weibo platform, mainly consisting of posts during public health emergencies (March 1st to June 30th, 2022) in Shanghai, and a psychological security lexicon in the field of public health emergencies was constructed. This laid the foundation for identifying the tendencies, intensity, and transitions of individual text psychological security, and then exploring the evolution trend of group psychological security risks. Compared with the generation and reduction periods, group psychological security risks are more likely to occur during the outbreak and recovery periods, and the intensity level is also higher. The overall intensity of group psychological security risks shows an evolution trend of first increasing, then decreasing, and then increasing again. The paper provides an opportunity to explore the dynamics of psychological security in the digital space. Meanwhile, we call on the government and relevant management departments to pay more attention to the group psychological security risks formed during the outbreak and recovery periods of public health emergencies, and take corresponding measures in a timely manner to guide the public to transform the extreme psychological security state into the normal psychological security state, in order to prevent and resolve group psychological security risks, promote social stability and national security.

Climate change impacts and threats on basic livelihood resources, food security and social stability in Afghanistan

Climate change impacts and threats on basic livelihood resources, food security and social stability in Afghanistan

Environmental Actions in the Hotel Industry of Carolina (Maranhão, Brazil)

Tourism is an economically relevant sector; however, its development, when unplanned, can negatively impact the preservation of the cultural patrimony, and social stability as a consequence. Thus, under the bias of sustainability, our study is a result of a research project that aimed to verify whether there are Actions implemented on the behalf of environmental management in the hotel industry of the city of Carolina, which is located in the region of the Chapada das Mesas National Park, state of Maranhão, Brazil. It is based on the precepts correlated to the environmental management of lodging facilities recommended by Ordinance No. 100/2011 of the Ministry of Tourism, and by the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards No. 15401/2006. To that effect, this investigation was conducted through techniques of exploratory research, with a qualitative and quantitative approach. Our investigation used questionnaires as tools, containing open- and closedended questions, applied with hotel industry managers from a list of facilities registered on CADASTUR. For data systematization, statistical resources of the Microsoft Excel program were used. Our results revealed that there are actions in favor of sustainability in the lodging facilities from Carolina. We hope, through this research, to provide theoretical and scientific support for the search for actions that promote ecological tourism, as well as sustainability, in the development of the sector in Carolina, Maranhão.

Victims' Rights Protection Strategies Under Cyberbullying in China: The Nexus Between Criminal Liability and Civil Liability

In today's society, cyberbullying has become a pressing social issue, causing significant impacts on victims and the broader community. This research aims to comprehensively understand and address the problem of cyberbullying to minimize its harm to individuals and society. The paper employs various methods and analytical frameworks such as legal interpretation, literature review, and comparative analysis. It offers an exhaustive analysis of the definitions and manifestations of cyberbullying and the legal obstacles encountered by victims during the process of seeking redress and protecting their rights. Drawing insights from international experiences, proposing targeted legal recommendations, and discussing the balance between criminal and civil regulations, this paper presents a multifaceted and unique analysis for the legal regulation of cyberbullying. The findings reveal that the current legal framework addressing cyberbullying has its shortcomings and requires further refinement. In the conclusion, this paper summarizes its main discoveries, highlighting the complexity of regulating cyberbullying legally. It suggests three approaches for enhancement, including learning from international cyberbullying legal practices, introducing targeted laws, and balancing criminal and civil regulations under cyberbullying in China. This paper hopes these methods will provide valuable insights for policymakers and the legal community to formulate more effective legal norms on cyberbullying, ensuring social safety and stability, and offering fresh perspectives and considerations for the legal research and practice of cyberbullying issues.

The revival of traditional culture as an element of the national security policy of the Central Asian countries in the 1991-2010's.

The subject of the study is the formation of one of the ideological components of national security policy in the countries of the Central Asian region (CAR) - the concept of preserving historical, cultural and religious traditions as the basis of social stability and security. The authors focus on the process of incorporating this concept into the theory and practice of ensuring the national security of the CAR countries at different historical stages of their development after 1991. The objects of the research are scientific theories and legal acts reflecting the relationship between culture and security in the Central Asian states, official statements and writings of the first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and other political leaders of Central Asia. The article touches upon the problems of countering radical religious movements and other ideological influences from outside by the CAR states, and shows the controversial nature of the measures taken in this area by the authorities of Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. Methodologically, the research is based on a civilizational approach to understanding the historical process, as well as on the idea of the influence of geopolitical trends on the internal life of countries and peoples of the modern world, including the Central Asian region. The work is based on the principles of historicism and consistency, using chronological, synchronous, dichronous, comparative and other methods of historical research. The novelty of the study lies in the generalization of data revealing the role of traditional values in the security systems of the CAR countries. The results of the work include a set of facts and theoretical provisions on the evolution of the security ideology of the CAR countries and can be used in scientific projects in the field of universal history and political science. The authors conclude that the revival of traditional culture and the local version of Islam (Hanafism) in the 1991-2010's were consistently considered by the leaders of the CAR countries as one of the most important factors in strengthening the state, its independence and international authority. This line was carried out most fully and consistently in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which was reflected in the development programs, legislation, scientific and journalistic literature of these countries. There is a tendency in Kazakhstan to integrate cultural policy based on traditional civilizational values with national security policy.

Potential Political Conflict in the 2024 Presidential Election (Conflict Theory Study)

This research discusses the potential for political conflict in the 2024 presidential election from the perspective of conflict theory. The conflict perspective used is according to the views of Karl Marx and Ralf Dahrendorf. The approach used in this research is qualitative research with a literature study method which discusses potential conflicts that will occur. Conflicts that will occur, quoted from Kompas (Firda Cynthia Anggrainy, 2023). one pair of presidential candidates who they consider to be unconstitutional. The results of this research show that there is potential for political conflict in the 2024 presidential election. There is potential for political conflict in the 2024 presidential election. According to Karl Max, conflict occurs based on the class gap factor. In this political phenomenon, classes are divided into two, the ruling class and the ordinary people. According to Ralf Dahrendorf, conflict occurs based on differences in interests of groups with interests. In the potential political conflict in the 2024 presidential election, it will be very easy for conflicts of interest to arise based on each presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate. Conflict is seen as the result of social inequality and differences in interests between individuals or groups. Such conflicts can play an important role in changing political agendas, resolving social problems, and creating long-term changes in society. However, conflict can also threaten social stability and worsen social integration.

Multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction: Diasporic Ukrainians in Shanghai

AbstractThis article reports on a study of multilingualism, language choice, and identity construction for six Ukrainians in Shanghai, China. Thematic analysis of data collected from netnographic observation, semi‐structured interviews, and narrative frame writing revealed that diasporic Ukrainians’ language choice is both instrumentally strategic and sociopolitically charged; in the public domain, they construct light “citizen of the world” and “nice foreigner” identities; in the private domain, they construct “Ukrainian who speaks Ukrainian language” identity. To understand the seemingly binary or even conflicted situation, we turn to the concept of “social anchoring” and propose a conceptualization of “diasporic people's language choice and identity selection.” This study shows that the construction of diasporic identity is, first of all, an individualistic process, articulating the affective aspect in their seeking psychological stability; it is also a social practice indicating diasporic people's strategies in seeking social stability.

Bullying Problem with Emile Durkheim's Structural Functionalism Study

The research objective of this article is to explain bullying that occurs within the scope of society by using the Structural Functionalism approach introduced by Emile Durkheim. This research was conducted through a literature study method to explore an in-depth understanding of how the phenomenon of bullying affects social structures and functions in society. The results show that structural functionalism views that each element has a role and function in maintaining social stability. In this study, it is analyzed how bullying affects individuals who are victims, relationships between individuals, and social institutions in society. Bullying can disrupt the balance in the social system and have a negative impact on the victim, including stress, depression and other psychological disorders. In addition, bullying can also create tensions in social relations, both between individuals and between groups in society, thus threatening overall stability. This research also highlights the importance of social norms in maintaining social balance and addressing bullying behavior. Social institutions, such as schools and workplaces, have a role in creating a supportive environment for individuals as well as implementing anti-bullying policies. Through a Structural Functionalism perspective, this article identifies challenges in maintaining social stability and develops solutions to address the problem of bullying in society. This research provides a valuable understanding of the complexity of social interactions and the important role of social norms and social institutions in maintaining social stability in society.

Real Time Violence Detection and Alert System

Abstract: This paper talks about a précised safety model incorporating elements of Artificial Intelligence for real-time violence detection along with Alert System. This model utilizes the advancements in technology to rapidly respond to any potential violent assault incident. When these technologies are further developed, it also increases the possibilities of how they could be used in future to safeguard schools, public area safety, personal safety, and social stability. Numerous researches and trials have been conducted to counter violence with the passage of time that includes the installations of surveillance systems for warning or alerting to violent activities. Its main objective is to get surveillance systems to automatically annotate the violence activities and issue any Warning/Alerts. For this purpose, first of all the system proceeds with the process of foregrounding a person in each frame, then relevant frames are extracted and irrelevant are ignored, after this violent pattern is identified by the trained model is detected, and end up saving these frames as images. The image is then enhanced and the corresponding details like time and location are transmitted as an alert via Telegram app. The proposed technique is essentially based on deep learning for automatic violence detection using Convolutional Neural networks (CNN). For this diagnosis, a light weight pre-trained model, MobileNetV2, is used to ensure better accuracy than an independent CNN which requires massive computation time and reduced precision.

REVIVAL OF THE HOTEL INDUSTRY: THE IMPACT OF FOOD WASTE REDUCTION ON SERBIA’S ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

Food waste represents a global issue with serious economic, environmental, and social implications. This study investigates the impact of food waste on the economic stability of hotels and restaurants in the Republic of Serbia using a structural modeling approach. The survey included 136 managers across 30 hotels in various cities and mountainous regions of the Republic of Serbia. Results indicate a high awareness of the food waste issue and identify key factors affecting the economic stability of these enterprises. Although no significant link was found between biodiversity, climate, and environment, as well as economy with economic stability, a positive relationship between social environment and economic stability was discovered. This research model provides a deeper understanding of the factors shaping food waste management practices in hotels and restaurants, thereby offering guidelines for enhancing the economic stability of these sectors.

Optimisation of socio-economic, environmental and public health determinants of national security for post-pandemic recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic became a significant test for social and economic stability worldwide. Its destructive effect forces authorities to overcome negative impacts and ensure socio-economic recovery. The research distinguishes socio-economic, environmental and public health determinants of national security before and after the pandemic. The post-pandemic recovery strategy covers various perspectives: urban, tourism, employment, healthcare, economic recovery; sustainable development; innovations and investments; environment protection; social and psychological support. We develop the National Security Index. It comprises 16 indicators of economic, environmental and social proxies of national security. The Index concerns 34 European countries in 2000-2022. Several methods were applied. Firstly, the natural and Savage normalisation (to bring indicators to a comparable form). Secondly, the principal component analysis, the Fishburn formula and ranking (to define the significance of indicators). Thirdly, the additive-multiplicative convolution (to integrate individual parameters). The National Security Index showed a delayed COVID-19 destructive impact (in 2020 the Index decreased in 2 out of 34 countries). Negative trends of the pandemic revealed actively in 2021 (the Index decreased in 14 out of 34 countries) and became dramatical in 2022 (the Index decreased in 28 out of 34 countries). Factor analysis showed that national security improvement in 2019, 2020 and 2022 mostly depended on 3-4 determinants while 6 determinants became especially crucial for the national security in 2021. Summarising the results, we can single out a range of important steps to achieve the post-pandemic recovery in national security. Economic measure might be focused on overcoming inflation, government expenditures, optimisation and maintenance of the socio-economic resilience by increase of total reserves in months of imports. Environmental measures consist in strengthening energy independence (reduction of energy production and distribution losses, fall of greenhouse gas emissions). Social measures are simulating employment. The regression analysis findings confirm no statistically significant impact of public health determinants on national security in 2019-2022.

경찰공무원의 직무만족에 미치는 영향요인 연구

In modern society, police officials are responsible for key security tasks such as crime prevention, crime response, and civil safety, and play a role in maintaining national safety and stability. Therefore, it can be said that the job satisfaction of police officials is an important factor that has a great influence on social stability and the effectiveness of law enforcement. In this study, an in-depth study was conducted to analyze the relationship between police officials' job satisfaction based on Herzberg's motivation and hygiene theory to examine the factors affecting police officials' job satisfaction. Herzberg's motivation and hygiene theory is one of the important theories for explaining and improving job satisfaction, and classifies job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction as other factors. According to the analysis, higher growth potential, promotion, praiseㆍrecognition, and achievement, which are Herzberg's motivating factors, can have a positive effect on job satisfaction, and higher hygiene factors such as communication, work environment, policyㆍ supervision, and salaryㆍallowance can have a positive effect on job satisfaction. These results support Herzberg's motivation and hygiene theory, and suggest that police organizations need to improve job satisfaction by strengthening organizational management and support. As active and active police activities of individual police officials are required, the following implications are derived based on the analysis results of this study. The first is a sense of accomplishment. As shown in the analysis results, it was found that the sense of achievement had a high effect on job satisfaction. If you feel rewarded and accomplished through your current work as a police officer, this will soon help you improve your ability and expertise. Second is the rationalization of the police personnel management system. A representative area of human resources management is promotion. This is because police officials, unlike other organizations, are a vertical class culture and have a large difference in authority and responsibility for performing their duties depending on the class. Therefore, measures should be devised to increase the rationality of the performance evaluation system and the fairness of promotion.

애덤 스미스의 공감, 정의, ‘스미스 문제’ 해결 논리 및 공공선택학에 주는 함의

As a variant of Political Economy deriving from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations(WN), Public Choice students need to add Theory of Moral Sentiment to recognize true meaning of Homo Economicus, which the discipline stands on. This article focuses on four points regarding this project. First, the meaning of Sympathy by Smith was extracted from TMS. Second, logic of Smith’s Justice theory were analyzed, Third, some persuasive explanations were tried to solve so-called ‘Das Adam Smith Problem’ between TMS and WN. Fourth, relations of TMS to Public Choice was suggested, in the context of both concord and discord. Results of this article reveal some implications as follows. First, Smithian TMS logic emerged without any transcendental components like absolute reason or revelation by god, which serves to more acceptability to ordinary individuals. Second, ‘Impartial Spectator’ plays vital role to induce more objective judgements from subjective judgements of any individuals. Without it, moral sentiments are not to form mutual sympathy. Third, situations is restricted in which sympathy can lead to social stability. Therefore, force by politics, institutions, and law is more common where sympathy is hard to emerge. Public Choice is a set of knowledge to deal with those situations(‘organizational order’, by Hayek) lacking sympathy. Fourth, even so, organizational order requires to secure sympathy of the individuals being governed, at least in long-term basis, suggesting sympathy is still important, both in the world of spontaneous and organizational order.

A Theoretical Study on the Effectiveness of Grassroots Social Governance

Social stability is one of the important pursuits of rulers with great priority over other aspects. From the perspective of social construction, social stability marks the stability and happiness of people’s lives, so the improvement of people’s happiness is important. Social stability is also the premise of people’s peace and contentment for harmony. Grassroots social governance is an important part of social governance that is a necessary prerequisite for maintaining social stability and promoting social development. This paper explains the necessity of improving the effectiveness of grassroots social governance, points out the shortcomings of the current system, and analyzes and discusses methods to improve its effectiveness.

Financial Development and Income Inequality in Nigeria: Testing the Financial Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

This study aims to investigate the link between financial development and income inequality in Nigeria, considering the potential existence of a financial Kuznets curve in Nigeria from 1986 to 2022. The study uses datasets from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Database. It employs the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Phillips-Perron (PP), Zivot-Andrews (ZA), ARDL bounds testing approach, and the Toda-Yamamoto causality test to determine the direction of causality between the two variables. The study finds evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between financial development and income inequality, potentially supporting the Financial Kuznets curve hypothesis in Nigeria. Additionally, the results of the Toda-Yamamoto causality test show a unidirectional causality running from financial development to income inequality. The findings have significant implications for economic development and social stability in Nigeria, emphasizing the need for targeted policies to mitigate the potential adverse effects of financial development on income inequality. This study fills a gap in existing research by examining the financial Kuznets curve in Nigeria and accounting for structural breaks, thus contributing valuable insights to the ongoing debate on finance and inequality.

A General Theory of Population Aging and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Development

Population aging is becoming one of the discussed topics not only in Vietnam but all over the world and is one of the most important social transformation phenomena of the 21st century. This process will affect to most areas of social life such as the labor market, finance, demand for goods and services, education, social security and health care for the elderly, etc. Research on aging, especially in a developing country like Vietnam, has become more urgent than ever, when the aging rate is fast but the average income is low and the social security budget is tight. Therefore, population aging can slow down the economic growth and increase the burden on the budget, even affecting social stability. This article analyzes the current situation and aging trends in Vietnam. Next, it focuses on clarifying the general theory of the mechanism of population aging and pointing out the impact of population aging on socio-economic development. Quantifying the impact of aging on socio-economic growth is very complex, requiring in-depth, multi-disciplinary, multi-field and multi-dimensional research. This analysis has reviewed some reliable assessment methods in the world as well as in Vietnam on aging. The results suggest a more multifaceted perspective on aging, referring to the consideration of the age structure of the population in development. At the same time, research on aging requires the participation of scientists, policymakers, etc. to effectively respond to an aging society.

A comparative study of machine learning-based regression models for supply chain management

The rise of machine learning technology has opened up unprecedented opportunities for the retail industry. Machine learning, as an essential branch of artificial intelligence, enables computers to improve their performance through continuous learning and experience. It has demonstrated its ability to handle large-scale data and complex problems effectively. In retail, machine learning predictions and methods can also lead to significant breakthroughs in supply chain management, helping businesses identify better ways to maintain economic stability and growth, which are crucial for improving people's living standards, eliminating poverty, promoting social stability, driving technological progress, and reducing inequality. This is achieved through different algorithmic regression methods, which can predict future trends and consumer behavior with high accuracy. Machine learning algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data to identify patterns and trends and make accurate predictions about future demand, product inventory levels, and other important factors that drive business success in the retail industry.