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Этничность: сущность и структура
Ethnicity: Its Essence and Structure

Author(s): Julija Černjavskaja
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: soft constructivism; the structure of ethnicity; ethnic borders; stereotypes; ethnic images; ethnic identity

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to essence of ethnicity and its structure. It is written from the point ofview of the “soft constructivism”. Ethnicity is designed not by elites in the mobilization purposes,it is broad by masses in a daily life, from this research position. The structure of ethnicity includessuch components as: ethnic borders, ethnonimes, myths, ethnic time and territory, stereotypes,expectations, roles, an ethnic image and three types of ethnic identity. Owing to such structureethnicity is a dynamical phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: XI
  • Page Range: 151-163
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian