- a mental adaptation syndrome, which displays the degree of physiological,
psychological and socio-psychological adaptation of different categories of
nationalization to chronic frustration, difficulties;
- fixed characteristics of states of values groups of settlement, with the gluttonous
destructive consequences;
- as a result of dissatisfaction with the basic social needs of man;
- specific situation in the regional community, special of the mass consciousness
and individual behavior of people;
- the corresponding spiritual standards of individuals and social groups, their
dissatisfaction with the existing condition, the attitude to what is going on, and to other
individuals and groups, characteristic indicators of the crisis of the system, the violation
of the balance of its structures and functions.
Based on the proposed definitions, it can be argued that in essence the most
optimal is the first option, it is on the basis of which it is possible to formulate
definitions of socioeconomic tensions, which suggests to be understood as a specific,
unstable structure of social relations, based on the low efficiency of the economic
sphere and, as a result, dissatisfied socio-economic needs of individuals, characterizes
the unstability of the social system, the existence of risks of social explosion.
In the presented complementary definition, the concept of socio-economic tension
should separately emphasize the economic basis of this phenomenon. That is, between
the economic situation of the territory and the level of socio-economic tension is
observed inversely proportional relationship: the better functioning economy, the
lower the level of socio-economic tension and vice versa.
Experts distinguish four stages of the economic environment, according to which
changes in the level of socio-economic tension [19]:
1) "stability" - the state of the economic environment, which allows maximum
provision of socio-economic needs of the inhabitants; the number of dissatisfied with
their own socioeconomic status is minimal;
2) "inward" stability - the state of the economy, when the external system
functions without failures, but there are already isolated cases of dysfunction of
individual elements of the system, which causes the emergence of latent socio-
economic tension among the population;
3) "complication" - the state in which during the life of the economic system of
some economic entities there are regular crisis phenomena, which causes open
discontent among those involved in the activities of these structures;
4) "exacerbation" - the state of the economic system in which there is a real threat
of loss of profitability not only for certain economic entities, but for the analyzed region
as a whole, a stable-high level of social tension among the population of the region is
recorded;
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