Koptseva N.P. 1
Kirko V.I. 2
1 FGAOU HPE “Siberian Federal University»
2 FBSI HPE «Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogikal University» n.a. V.P. Astafjeva
The article analyzes the basic concepts and principles of today’s ethnic and cultural studies. The article explains the choice of methodological strategy research of historical and modern ethnic groups. Prove that the theory of ethnos Sergei Mikhailovich Shikogorova not lost its relevance. It can be used for analysis of contemporary ethnic processes known in the world press as the “Arab Spring” and “Russian Spring”. Ethnicity is seen as a fundamental social characteristics, which occurs immediately after the biological inheritance rights. Ethnic groups are the result of people’s adaptation to the primary ethnic environment and to the secondary ethnic environment . Ethnic groups vary with changes in the primary and secondary ethnic backgrounds. Primary ethnic Wednesday - is the climate, landscape, flora and fauna. Secondary ethnic environment arises as a result of adaptation to the social organization of the ethnic group, which corresponds to the technology of natural materials.