Social administration is a continuing, conscious and purposeful direction of the normal functions, improvement and development of the social system (or sub-system). Administration is based on study, understanding and the use of objective laws involved in the system. Its narrow meaning is only social administration but in a broad sense it includes biological and technological systems, as well.

Administration of the national-cultural processes includes:

- discovering trends in the development of the National-cultural processes (NCP);

- prediction of their changes;

- elaboration of the corresponding measures and methods for realizing such measures;

- formation of the requirements and interests of the society in the sphere of NCP; and

- criteria for the truth of the theoretical conception, for the system of administration is able to be effective and to improve only on the bases of an absolute unity of theory and practice.

The structure of the administration of the NCP includes such elements as:

- object of administration: the sub-system administrated;

- the subject of administration: the administrative sub-system;

- the purposes of administration and of the purposeful sub-system; and

- the subsystem of connection between the subject and object of administration;

- the process of administration of a dynamic sub-system;

- the principles of administration of the basic sub-system;

The subject of administration is the national-cultural process itself and is complicated in character:

- the state with different kinds of functions;

- other elements of the political system: political parties and movements, socio-political organizations, agency of self-administration, and so on; and

- non-political social institutions: professional and creative unions, social organizations, professional communities, and so on.

The connection between the subject and object is dialectical in character; both subject and object are independent, but are interconnected, mutually defined and interactive.

Administration of NCP includes the following:

- harmonization of the national-cultural interests;

- assuring the equal rights, freedom and possibility of culture for representatives of all nations, nationalities and ethnical groups;

- settlement of the national-cultural problems;

- identification and warning of incipient national-cultural conflicts; and

- the quest for a resolution of conflicts once begun.

The administration of NCP can be reduced to three basic principles:

1. develop decisions, including plans, predictions, information, etc.;

2. realize the decisions, including preparation, organization, regulation, etc.; and

3. control execution, including coordination, evaluation, etc.

The principles of administration of NCP are divided between

- common administration: concrete, systematic, objective, scientific, dynamic and so on;

- specific to only one sphere, e.g., national self-determination, equal rights for all nations and cultures, guarantees of the freedom of the national-cultural life , etc.; and

- specific to the NCP as an administrative project:

These principles include:

(a) international cultural groups as participants in processes differ among themselves;

(b) the object has great influence on the subject of administration;

(c) social-psychological factors play a large role due to the special social rules of national psychology and self-awareness;

(d) as one of the most complicated objects, the social administration of NCP requires constant and continuing attention; and

(e) being an aspect of the social system, problems in NCP influences the other aspects of life.

The basic world tendencies in the development of NCP in the modern epoch are differentiation and integration. The essence of the tendencies of differentiation is to isolate ethnic societies and groups from each other in their separate striving for the independence and strengthening of their distinctive culture. The basic manifestations of these tendencies are:

- a strengthening of the ethno-cultural distinction and specification;

- growth of popular slogans about self-determination (cultural, political and so on);

- disintegration of many poli-ethnic states; and

- elevation of the national self-awareness;

The essence of tendencies of integration is in strengthening interaction, lowering barriers, stereotypes and prejudices and the dissemination of international and common cultural values. The main manifestations of such tendencies are:

- strengthening processes of assimilations and consolidations,

- the interaction of different cultures, and

- the creation of the world economy, information and cultural space.

Hence, the tendencies of differentiation are both positive and negative as development is often contradictory and different; the tendencies of integration are contributions to progress.

The main issues for deciding problems, contradictions and conflicts in the sphere of NCP are:

- national-cultural self-determination;

- cultural autonomy;

- cultural rights of national minorities:

- status of the national-cultural organizations;

- national languages;

- confessional questions;

- education; and

- questions of the development of national art.

The super-imposition of many different kinds of problems and their accumulation can lead to conflict. Conflict in the NCP sphere is a special kind of intergroup contradiction, where the groups are polarized according to their national-cultural symbols. Such conflicts are of many types, each depending upon the character, purpose, intensity, duration and methods of the conflict.

The structure of conflicts includes such elements as its

- object,

-subject,

- basis (conflict situation), and

- reason (incident).

The main conditions of the resolution of conflicts are:

1. the will of the two sides for collaboration;

2. the clarity of positions on the two sides; and

3. the mediator, who needs such qualities as strength, independence, authority, commitment.

The foundation of the NCP in the modern situation of the Republic of Uzbekistan is included in the Declaration of State Independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and such legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan as laws on state language, citizenship, religious organizations, and so on. The President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, I.A. Karimov, has set forth the following principles:

- everyone, who was born, lives and works in the Republic of Uzbekistan is a citizen of this Republic with full rights;

- the Republic of Uzbekistan guarantees all rights and interests of national minorities, including the development of their languages and cultures;

- the government of the Republic of Uzbekistan affirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Bill of Rights;

- the Republic of Uzbekistan guarantees economic, political, social, cultural rights and freedom without any differences according to race, confession or other factors.