Skripnichenko, D.V. The ethnical dimension of political processes

Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of the role of the ethnic factor in the Russian and global political processes. The modern ethnical political science has four main approaches to the interpretation of ethnicity and its place within the state political systems. They are primordialism, functionalism, constructivism and structuralism. One of the first to appear in XIX century in Germany was primordialism. This theory was developed by a historian and philosopher J.G. Herder. Within this approach ethnicity is viewed as a genetic givenness, and it is characterized by such features as language, race, territory, religion and culture, that is by the features, which the person possesses based on his origin, and the ethnical groups are formed based on these features.

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