Национальная и этническая идентичность в полиэтническом обществе

Abstract

The article analyzes various interpretations of ethnic and national identity and alternative models of their interaction with each other. It has been established that ethnic identity expresses the sociocultural and cultural-psychological identity both at the level of individual consciousness and at the level of social, collective self-awareness. National identity characterizes the originality of the socio-political system in which ethnic groups exist. In its captured form, it contains ethnic identity. Ethnic and national identity find their expression in ethnic and national self-conscience, both at the level of social psychology and at the level of social ideology. In their interaction, the most effective is the model of harmonious mutual correlation of ethnic and national identity, in which the interests of various ethnic groups that are part of the national state find adequate realization in national identity. The problematic model is based on the contradiction between national and ethnic interests.