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ISSN 2500-0802
ПИ №ФС77-61154
ISSN 2500-0802
ПИ №ФС77-61154
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AS A CONCEPT CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNOS
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Social constructivism quickly gained recognition in the scientific community, and has become one of the leading trends in the philosophy of the XX century. One of the key concepts in the teaching of social constructivism has become “identity”. Such attention to this phenomenon was due to the latest situation of social life. As many sociologists and cultural anthropologists, it is clear that life in modern societies was significantly different from the lives of previous generations. To date, such things as: short-term marriages, or “civil” marriage, frequent job changes, the change of political opinion, nationality, religious, class and gender identities are perceived by the public is quite normal. Man has learned to live, constantly adapting to the changing conditions of life. In this regard, the social constructivism maintains look at identity as something that is constantly changeable, the constructed , plural , depending on the context, implying the possibility of choice. But this choice is not really free because it is realized in a specific social context, where the set and the range of alternatives, and a set of potential interpretations. This approach allows to show plural nature of ethnic identity, to illustrate the methods of its construction. Based on existing historical and cultural differences of community within the meaning of the Constructivists, is nothing but a social construction, emerging and existing through persistent efforts on the part of the people and the institutions they created. This article discusses the constructivist study of ethnicity Komaroffa J., F. Barth and Anthony Giddens. In the works of these scholars sufficiently described the formation of some of the cultural traditions associated with ethnicity, demonstrated that social constructivism ethnicity is a matter of consciousness.