Stability as a philosophical category, updated in relation to the social sciences

Usenkov I. A.

The subject of the study is stability as a philosophical category that is relevant to the social sciences, primarily to law. It is concluded that most social systems have an open and dissipative character, and in their optimal state they are characterized by dynamic stability. The author identifies the signs of a dynamically stable social system: self-identity, relative constancy of elements, reasonable intensity of changes, adaptability. Thus, the dynamic stability of a social system means the preservation of its stability, that is, an adaptive and reasonable intensity of changes while maintaining self-identity and the relative constancy of the elements, in a certain time perspective.

Keywords:stability, dynamism, dialectics, properties of systems, social systems.