Interethnic Families Research Articles

Литовський рід Монтовтів (Монтовтів Коблинських) на Волині в XV–XVI ст.

The joint development of Lithuanian and Ukrainian lands within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th–16th centuries fostered inter-ethnic family ties. One of such cases was the Lithuanian family of Montovt, known in Volhynia since the second half of the 15th century. The article looks at the history of the family of Montovt. The Grand Duke of Luthuania bestowed upon Mykhailo Montovtovych, a member of this family, the most important administrative office in Volhynia – starosta of Lutsk, and the latter’s descendants settled in Volhynia permanently. Jakub Montovtovych, the younger son of Mykhailo Montovovych, whilst serving as starosta of Kremenets, received for his service substantial land holdings – volost of Mlyniv together with the town of Koblyn. After the name of the town Volhynian Montovts started to be called the Montovt Koblynskies. The important status of the family of Montovt in Volhynia is evidenced not only by high offices held by some of its members, but also by matrimonial ties: the Montovts established kinship ties with several ducal families, in particular the families of Holshan, Porytsky, Lubetsky and Sokolsky. The most famous from the family of Montovt in the 16th century was Hanna Montovtivna, the daughter of Yan Yakubovich, who was the son of Yakub Mykhailovych. Hanna's destiny, which began happily, had a very sorrowful continuation. When she was 14, her father gave her in marriage to Duke Bogush Lubetsky. In her second marriage, she was the wife of Duke Vasyli Sokolsky. Altogether Hanna was married four times. After the death of her father, her stepmother and her second husband Oleksandr Semashko, trying to appropriate her inheritance, married her against her will to a cruel and uneducated man Pavel Zglychynsky, who deprived her from her property and kept her in prison for 14 years. Freed from the captivity, Hanna tried to divorce her husband, but according to the decree of Lutsk bishop, Zglychynsky only apologized to his wife and promised to treat her well henceforth. Thus, Hanna was forced to forgive him and to continue to live with him in marriage.

Follow Father or Mother? Understanding the Monoethnic Identification of Biethnic Children in China

Abstract In China, children’s ethnicity is often decided by their parents at the time of birth or during childhood; individuals are only allowed to be identified by a single ethnicity. Ethnic identification is therefore a contested issue shaped by the intra-family power structures that determine which parent’s ethnic heritage will be passed down. In this paper, we use China’s 2005 and 2015 inter-census surveys to examine the factors impacting the ethnic identification of children in interethnic families. We find the likelihood that children are identified with their fathers’ ethnicity decreased between 2005 and 2015. Relative to children with a minority mother and a Han father, those with a Han mother and a minority father, and those with parents from different minority groups have higher odds of following their father’s ethnicity. Being a girl, being older, having more educated parents, having urban or migrant status, and living in prefectures with a higher concentration of ethnic minorities all tend to lower the odds of identifying with the father. Moreover, stratified models demonstrate that in families where the father is the only minority parent, Islamic heritage positively predicts boys’ adoption of fathers’ ethnicity, but negatively predicts girls’ adoption. Eligibility for bonus points on the college entrance exam is negatively associated with the odds of following father when the mother is the only minority parent, but the association turns positive when the father is the only minority parent. The results illustrate the nuanced social processes involved in the social construction of ethnic identification.

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN INTERETHNIC FAMILIES IN PAGUTAN BARAT VILLAGE, MATARAM CITY

This research is based on phenomena observed by the researchers where families with different ethnic backgrounds maintain harmony within the family and community despite their diverse ethnicities. Therefore, this research analyzed the factors, forms, and impacts of intercultural communication in interethnic families in Pagutan Barat Village, Mataram City. The method used is qualitative, employing non-participant observation for data collection. Primary data sources include three married couples, community leaders, neighborhood heads, and religious figures, gathered through semi-structured interviews and documentation. Secondary data sources include books, journals, and photographs. The analysis involves three stages: data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The study utilizes Communication Accommodation Theory and Interpersonal Communication Theory to analyze the research questions. The results indicate that love and family are the main factors leading to interethnic marriages. The forms of communication used include verbal and non-verbal communication, intrapersonal communication, and interpersonal communication. The positive impacts of intercultural communication in interethnic families are the integration of values and traditions, uniting differences through joint activities, conflict resolution, and space management, the use of a common language, and a broader community. However, the negative impacts include potential internal conflicts arising from differences in religious symbols, rituals, and space arrangements.

MATERIALS OF FIELD RESEARCH ON FAMILY AND MARRIAGE RELATIONS OF THE MEADOW AND MOUNTAIN MARI

Comprehensive studying the topic of family and marriage is one of the relevant and important trends in ethnology. Some aspects of the family and marriage problems of the Mari people have not yet been fully investigated and require further scientific development.
 
 The purpose of the study is to analyze family and marriage relations among the meadow and the mountain Mari in the 1950s and 1970s on the basis of field materials collected by the authors during ethnographic expeditions in Gornomariysky, Zvenigovsky and Morkinsky districts of the Republic of Mari El in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022.
 
 Materials and methods. The research is based on diary and audio recordings, field materials and material sources collected as a result of expedition surveys of Mari villages, as well as archival materials stored in the fund of the National Museum of the Republic of Mari El named after T. Evseev. During the study of the stated topic, the authors used the methods of survey, observation, questioning, interviews, as well as methods of analyzing the obtained field information, the historical-comparative, historical-typological and quantitative methods.
 
 Study results. The article presents the results of the analyzing the development of family and marriage relations among the mountain Mari and the Volga group (Sharpan-Nashmakan) meadow Mari in the 1950s–1970s on the basis of field expedition materials. Collecting, processing of ethnographic information and their systematization made it possible for the authors to identify some local features of mountain-Mari weddings, to determine the seasonality of meadow-Mari weddings, the specific ratio of primary marriages and re-marriages, to study the marriage district, to characterize mixed interethnic families and to determine the average marriage age at the time under consideration.
 
 Conclusions. The obtained data on the marriage age, the seasonality of marriages, the marriage district, the proportion of mono-ethnic and interethnic families have a valuable scientific significance for determining the features of the development and evolution of family-marriage relations among different ethno-territorial groups of the Mari people. The study showed that the most archaic ceremonial elements associated with the organization of matchmaking, conditional preparation of dowry and its redemption, holding a wedding in two days in compliance with certain folk customs, maintained their stable existence among the meadow and mountain Mari in the 1950s and 1970s.

Parental Ethnicity and Adolescent Development: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Dataset.

Adolescent developmental outcomes can vary significantly by differences in ethnicity. While previous studies have examined the impacts of adolescents' own ethnicity on their development, little research has been conducted about the impacts of the ethnicity of both parents as an important family background factor which is likely to expose adolescents to a variety of growth environments. Using nationally representative data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) surveys, we examine the relationship between parental ethnicity (including both monoethnic families and interethnic families with intermarried Han and ethnic minority groups) and adolescent developmental outcomes, measured by academic performance, cognitive development, and health. Our results show that adolescents with interethnic parents had higher scores in literacy and mathematics tests than those of monoethnic non-Han parents, but their scores were not statistically significantly different from those in monoethnic Han families. Adolescents with interethnic parents also performed better in fluid intelligence assessments and had lower obesity rates than those with monoethnic ethnic minority parents. Our results further suggest that socioeconomic status, parental education, and education expectations partially mediate the association between interethnic parents and adolescent development. Moreover, parental ethnic composition acts as a potential moderator that influences the effects of parents' non-agricultural work on adolescent development. Our study expands the growing body of empirical evidence on the relationship between parental ethnicity and adolescent development and is conducive to policy recommendations for interventions in the development of adolescents with ethnic minority parents.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ КОПИНГ-СТРАТЕГИЙ ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЯ КОНФЛИКТОВ В МЕЖНАЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ СЕМЬЯХ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ СЛАВЯНО-ТУРЕЦКИХ СЕМЕЙ)

The article considers features of modern interethnic families, the role of cultural and religious factors in intra-family communication on the example of Slavic-Turkish families. The concepts of “family conflict” and “family coping strategies” are analyzed. The results of a comparative study of the relationship between coping strategies and interaction in conflicts in inter-ethnic and mono-ethnic families are presented. An empirical study of coping strategies for overcoming family conflicts in interethnic families was conducted by a sample of 60 people. The sample is divided into two groups: 30 people who are in a mono-national Slavic marriage (age from 23 to 42 years, married experience from 1 to 8 years), and 30 people who are in an interethnic Slavic-Turkish marriage (age from 21 to 46 years, married experience from 2 to 9 years). The authors suggest that there are differences in the use of coping strategies during family conflicts in families of different ethnic composition. People who are in an inter-ethnic marriage will demonstrate a high level of conflict in family life compared to spouses who are in a mono-ethnic marriage.

ТЕМА КОЛОНИЗАЦИИ В РОМАНЕ КЕДРА МИТРЕЯ «ТЯЖКОЕ ИГО»

This article is devoted to the problem of internal colonization of the north of Udmurtia on the example of Kedra Mitrey’s anti-church novel “Heavy Yoke”. Kedra Mitrey (Dmitry Ivanovitch Korepanov, 1892–1949) depicts the process of Christianization as one of the main instruments in the colonization of the Udmurts in the 19th century. Local residents adopt the skills of land cultivation from Russian settlers. Udmurts and Russians form interethnic families. The Udmurt peasant Dangyr and the Russian priest Ilariy are key characters in the novel. Dangyr has a negative attitude towards the construction of a new second church, since Ilariy uses most of the resources for personal selfish purposes. At the same time, Dangyr is drawn to reading and writing, without renouncing the pagan faith, he is baptized and learns the Russian language at a church school. The author of the novel sympathizes with Dangyr, but the priest Ilariy, conceived as a negative character, begins to reveal himself as a complex and contradictory figure. To fulfill his Orthodox mission, Ilariy learns the Udmurt language, gets acquainted with the faith and customs of the local population, and temporarily exempts baptized peasants from paying taxes. According to Kedra Mitrey, integration into the Russian space is a great boon for the Udmurts, but the tsarist policy, aimed at forcible Christianization and justifying the arbitrariness of local officials, most often turns into evil and becomes a ‘heavy yoke’ for the people.

Maintain or Shift? Focus on Inter-Ethnic Families in Indonesia

The study of mixed marriages is always an interesting topic to talk about, especially regarding the topic which is the impact of inter-ethnic mixed marriages. This study aims to describe the phenomenon of mixed marriages associated with the maintenance of traditional language. This paper applies qualitative research on language maintenance by Javanese-Batak Toba Families in Medan. The research data were derived from observation, interviews, and audio-recorded family conversations, parents’ role at home is the most dominant factor in maintaining vernacular language in inter-ethnic families, and vernacular language maintenance in inter-ethnic families is succeeded by language use at home and activities at home and surroundings while Javanese-Batak Toba families are patriarchy. The practices of vernacular language at home and in surroundings guide vernacular language maintenance (Pauwels,2016). The analysis displays that the relationship between culture, attitude, and prestige requires parents to maintain the vernacular language. Batak Toba language is maintained dominantly by families. Mother language is maintained. We conclude parents who have a positive attitude to their culture to show their prestige enforce children to maintain the vernacular language. This study recommends that further research explore vernacular language maintenance across three generations of Javanese-Batak Toba families.

Role of education in the education of religious identity in the 21st-Century Russian Society

The study addresses the directions and priorities of scientific research into the peculiarities of the religious identity of Russian citizens and how it has changed over the past decades. The paper identifies and characterizes the objects of scholarly interest in the study of the formation of the religious identity of Russians. A set of factors affecting religious identity are disclosed, including religious-value norms and attitudes that form in interethnic families. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of taking into account modern trends in the development of religious identity in contemporary Russians in order to determine its prospects in the context of globalization and the development of the market for religious services. The novelty of the study lies in a reconsideration of the conceptual foundations of religious identity development in Russia in the 2000s.

KONTRUKSI KOMUNIKASI ANTAR BUDAYA PADA KELUARGA BEDA ETNIS (ETNIK TORAJA DAN ETNIK BALI) DI KECAMATAN TOMONI TIMUR, KABUPETEN LUWU TIMUR, PROVINSI SULAWESI SELATAN

East Tomoni District, East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi Province is an area with a pluralistic society, this plurality is characterized by the existence of community groups from various ethnicities, cultures, religions, customs and so on who live together for a long time and establish social relations The construction of intercultural communication in this study aims to find out how the process of intercultural communication occurs in families of different ethnicities and also how to establish harmonious family relationships. between these two ethnic groups so that it has a positive impact on building social harmony. This study was designed with a qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. Sources of data in this study are primary data and secondary data with data analysis with two data collection techniques, namely observation data and literature study. Data analysis in this study uses three stages, namely: reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. Checking the validity of the data is done by data triangulation. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that communication in different ethnic families can be built with intercultural communication. Because with intercultural communication, the two ethnically different families (Ethnic Bali and Ethnic Toraja) can understand each other's culture. In an effort to maintain inter-ethnic family harmony, several things need to be done including increasing inter-ethnic cultural education, increasing the intensity of inter-ethnic interaction and communication, assimilation, accommodation and also cultural adaptation

Языковая политика и языковой конфликт в современном российском обществе

Introduction. The problem of the state of national (native) languages ​​is one of the most urgent, because modern information society and the specifics of its development have contributed to appearance of a completely different model of language behavior and language consciousness. Theoretical justification. The language issue is acutely manifested in multi-ethnic education, because multilingualism requires the definition of the language of interethnic communication. The language problem was actualized in the post-Soviet period in combination with national problems and the growth of national self-consciousness, the designation by ethnical leaders of the vector of preserving ethno-cultural identity. At the same time, any problem in Russian society unjustifiably had an ethnic connotation. Among a lot of ethnic problems, the language one takes a special place, because the stable development of any society depends on the state of the national language, the attitude towards it, its status. The infringement of the national language, it is ignoring, prohibition of use forms intolerant attitudes in society. An important role in resolving the language issue should be played by language policy, which should fully take into account ethnic interests of all national entities, avoid infringing on the language rights of speakers of a particular language. Only the targeted implementation of the measures laid down in the language policy will make it possible to prevent the emergence of a language conflict, otherwise interethnic conflicts may arise under slogans of protecting the native (national) language, which can destabilize the interethnic sphere as a whole. Methods. An empirical research was conducted in 2021 by random selection. The object of the research is the urban population. The subject of the research is the language consciousness and language behavior of the urban population of Dagestan. Location of the survey – cities Derbent, Kaspiysk, Makhachkala, Khasavyurt, Kizlyar. The basis for including these cities in the sample of the study is the territorial parameter, which allows to cover the northern, plain and southern administrative entities evenly. N = 563. Results and its discussion. The analysis of the language policy in modern Russian society shows that this survey is one of the most relevant, because against the backdrop of an aggravation in the interethnic sphere, one of the factors that worsened the situation was precisely the status of national languages. Basic provisions. – the conducted research shows the dominance of the Russian language as the language of interethnic communication in the language behavior of the surveyed urban population; this fact testifies to the transformation of the language consciousness of the townspeople; – native language is mainly used by respondents in intra-family communication, while in an interethnic family it is practically not used for objective reasons. – the main informative sources for the surveyed population are publications in Russian, while there is no demand for publications in national languages. However, it should be noted that the decrease in the weight of publications in native languages ​​is due to the fact that electronic media prevail over print publications; – revealed inconsistency and inconsistency in the language behavior of the urban population: declaring the value of the national language is not consistent with their language preference.

Language practices in Malay-Chinese families in Singapore

ABSTRACT Studies on language shift in Singapore have focused on the language use within ethnic communities. However, despite increasing numbers of interethnic marriages, very few studies have explored the effect of such marriages on LS. This article explores the language practices within Malay-Chinese mixed marriages and examines how language policies in these marriages and families are negotiated. Through the analysis of surveys and interviews with 16 Malay-Chinese interethnic families, this study found that English transcends both Malay and Mandarin in terms of language use in all domains. The linguistic choices of participants are also dependent on their interlocutors. Parental ideologies, both overt and covert, point to Mandarin being perceived as important for their children’s future while Malay was perceived to be a more familial language. This paper also highlights the influence government policies have on Singaporeans’ perceptions on the status of languages. The data points unambiguously to language shift in progress within these families, away from either Mandarin or Malay towards English.

СОДЕРЖАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ МОТИВАЦИОННО-ПОТРЕБНОСТНОГО КОМПОНЕНТА ВОСПИТАТЕЛЬНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ОТЦОВ РАЗНОЙ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОСТИ

Introduction. Russia, as a multinational country, has a large percentage of interethnic families. This feature affects the educational activities of the family and the father, in particular. Although the role of the father in the upbringing of the child differs from that of the mother, it is very important. It is the father who acts in the family as a connecting element of the system and his participation in the upbringing of children is of a stable nature, which has effect on both personal and social aspects of their development. The motivation-and-need component (as the fundamental component of any activity) is crucial in the study of the educational activity of fathers of various nationalities. The conceptual features of this component will affect the result of this activity, i.e., the development of the child. Research methods. The study employed the questionnaire “Features of Family Education” (Yu. A. Tokareva, A. A. Efimova); methodology “Motivation-and-Need Sphere of Fatherhood” (MNSF), (Yu. A. Tokareva); Mann–Whitney U test. The results of the study. The dominant motives in each national group have been established: the motive of social approval - for the Russian; the motive of achieving success in relations with the child and in their development – for the Ukrainian; the motive of self-realization in children – for the Tatar; the motive of self-affirmation – for the Armenian and Azerbaijani nationalities. Conclusion. The results obtained in the study can be used to develop psychological and pedagogical recommendations for interacting with the family.

The Voices of Interracial and Interethnic Couples Raising Biracial, Multiracial, and Bi-ethnic Children Under 10YearsOld.

This study explored the experiences of parents in an interracial or interethnic marriage who were raising children under 10 years old. Nineteen parents married to someone of a different race or ethnicity and with at least one child under 10 years old were surveyed and interviewed between September 2020 and April 2021 as part of a larger study of interracial and interethnic families. A majority of the parents identified four themes that emerged from their parenting practices. These were: (1) racism/discrimination, which they saw or were concerned about in reference to their child(ren); (2) the child(ren)’s ethnic-racial identity development; (3) the child(ren)’s skin color; and (4) the benefits to the child(ren) of being multiracial, biracial, or bi-ethnic. In addition, some of the parents expressed heightened concern for their child(ren) due to the political climate as reflected by recent racial protests and anti-Asian and anti-Latinx hate crimes. Social workers should practice with cultural humility when helping families deal with racism, microaggressions, and the identity development of children. In addition, they should explore the strengths of interracial and interethnic families.

Что такое народ для молодого поколения россиян? (Этническая самоидентификация потомков от смешанных браков в контексте мировоззренческих парадигм века сего)

The article is devoted to the perception and understanding of the categories of the national, nation, patriotism and related values by the young generation in the context of an increasingly spreading postmodern and transhumanist worldview. The topic is considered on the example of an interview conducted by the author among students of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after Herzen (St. Petersburg). The problem of ethnic self-identification of descendants from interethnic marriages is taken as a starting point. It is shown that it differs depending on whose point of view the phenomenon of “metisization” is considered. It was revealed to be the cultural, rather than genetic, basis of Russian self-identification among modern students (which seems to be traditional for the Russian ethnos), as well as the large role of the constructivist factor in ethnic self-identification. Constructivism is expressed in the fact that, in the opinion of a significant number of interviewed students, any descendant from interethnic families can choose any nationality, and not necessarily the nationality of one of the parents. In general, it is the students’ view that questions of national self-determination relate to the sphere of a person’s free choice. To confirm the latter, some aspects of the youth value system were analyzed, such as the patriotism characteristic for today’s youth, nationality (including inter-ethnic marriages), the future and behavior patterns that one should be guided by. A significant part of the students surveyed tend to give preference to globalist values (different from traditionally Western ones) and adhere to post-Christian patterns of behavior. The category of a nation is losing its meaning, and the transhumanistic worldview is apparently gaining influence among the surveyed students. Ontologism begins to disappear from the perception of young people; the world for them is increasingly turning into a “constructor”.

Ethnic identity of children in ethnic-mixed families: thematic analysis

The ethnic identity of children in ethnically mixed families is of considerable academic interest. In order to determine the main thematic problems in this work, the author conducts a historiographic study of the degree of study of the ethnic identity of children in ethnically mixed families. On the basis of these historiographic sources, special studies of the problem under study were systematized by the method of problem-chronological and comparative analysis. In particular, they analyzed research in the Google Scholar search engine related to the issues of children in ethnically mixed marriages in an English-language search. The article systematized problem blocks: theories of ethnic and racial categories in identification, the influence of the place and stages of socialization on ethnic identity, the role of social practice in the formation of ethnic identity. Thus, the author has identified three areas of special research into the problem of ethnic identity of children with dual ethnicity as a result of interethnic marriage. Thematic analysis of the texts revealed insufficient knowledge of ethnic identity in ethnically mixed families, in particular Koreans abroad. This analysis has a number of limitations, which set the task for further consideration in the context of studying the peculiarities of the ethnic identity of foreign Koreans, taking into account the specifics of the history and culture of the host country. Key words: ethnic identity, interethnic families, historiography, special studies, dual ethnicity.

ВЬЕТНАМСКИЕ ОТЦЫ, СОВЕТСКИЕ СЫНОВЬЯ: КОНТЕКСТ МЕЖНАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ СЕМЬИ

The article examines the impact of transnational interactions on the lives and professional choices of four Russians from Vietnamese-Russian families – writers Alexey Milkov and Eldar Sattarov, musician Vyacheslav Kovalev and film director Konstantin Fham-Malkin. The author analyzes four mixed families, in which the father is an ethnic Vietnamese, and the mother is a local resident: Russian / Tatar / Jewish. It is shown how children who grew up in such interethnic families, under the influence of various factors and circumstances, form an attitude to ethnicity – their Vietnamese origin, and make career choices.

«Я русин, я гуцул…»: етноімагологічні домінанти авторської візії Юрія Федьковича

The article examines how images of other nations are formed in the artistic world of a writer – a representative of another nation. Employing the imagological approach with its tools for studying the ethnic structures of the text and drawing on E. Smith’s concept of the national identity and E. Levinas’s concept of the Other, the author analysies the problem of perception of the Other on the interpersonal and intercultural levels, using the artistic heritage of the Ukrainian Rusin writer Yu. Fedkovych as a case study. The article highlights the dominants in the representation of other ethnic groups in the context of the writer’s identity, taking into consideration the cultural and historical discourses of the literature of a particular nation. Born into an interethnic family in Bukovynian Hutsulia, which was part of multicultural Austria, working and doing military service in various territories of Europe, communicating with representatives of various ethnic groups, Y. Fedkovich recorded the main stereotypes in perception of other nations’ representatives, which reveal the specificity of European interethnic relations. The main attention is drawn to the analysis of the Hutsul image of the world and the dominant images of the Other (Italian, Austrian, German, Moldavian / Romanian, Serbian, Polish, Jewish, Gypsy Imago). According to Levinas, the factors that determine the image of the Other are situations of freedom / enslavement, reinforced by the experience of war. Theoretical considerations are confirmed by examples from creative works. In this perspective, the literature represents intercultural dialogue in the European space to become a source of ethnoimagological studies.

THE TYPES OF THE ETHNIC IDENTITY OF THE CHECHEN TEENAGERS FROM HETEROGENICITY FAMILIES

The relevance of the research is due to the fact that children from interethnic families are often included simultaneously in the value-normative space of two sometimes significantly different ethno-cultural communities, which, of course, affects the features of their ethnic identity. Our scientific interest is to determine the types of the ethnic identity of the Chechen teenagers from heterogenicity families. Using diagnostic methods (the method of J. Finney, measuring the severity of ethnic identity; questionnaire of N.M. Lebedeva and A.N. Tatarko to study the features of ethnic identity; method "Types of ethnic identity" by G. U. Soldatova and S.V. Ryzhova; questionnaire for studying the structure of ethnic identity by M.V. Vereshchagina) using factor analysis, such types of ethnic identity of Chechen teenagers aged 15 to 17 years as harmonious, conflict, negative, assimilative, multi-ethnic, negated, marginal and supra-ethnic are identified and described. It is shown that there are certain correlates between the subjective assessment of adolescents from heteroethnic families living in the Chechen Republic, the connection with the people of the father and mother, which leads to the formation of a certain type of ethnic identity.

РЕЛИГИОЗНАЯ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТЬ И ПРИОБЩЕНИЕ ДЕТЕЙ К РЕЛИГИИ В МЕЖНАЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ СЕМЬЯХ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ РЕСПУБЛИКИ БАШКОРТОСТАН)

The article reveals some results of a sociological study on the features of religious identity of spouses and social practices of children's inclusion in interethnic families (on the example of the Republic of Bashkortostan). This topic is most relevant for multi-ethnic regions, where interfaith marriages are quite common, despite the presence of isolationist attitudes among a part of the population. Marriages between representatives of various religious movements lead to the formation of a special cross-cultural environment of interaction, which requires the spouses to make many decisions, including on the confessional affiliation of children, on the choice of mechanisms for the formation of religious identity. Based on the author's research, the article analyses the state of religious identity of a resident of a multi-ethnic region in a dynamic aspect. Special attention is paid to spouses who are in an interethnic marriage. The author studies variants of religious communications, among which the dominant one is the co-existence of religions in variations from "common / unified religion" to "equality". Most of the families studied are classified as egalitarian and democratic in terms of their power structure and upbringing model. The article provides data on the state of religious identity of children raised in multi-ethnic families. The authors call traditional, psychological and educational motives for introducing children to religion the predominant ones. Based on the presented material, the authors come to the conclusion that there are two most common models of introducing children to religion in interethnic families: passive (indirect) and active religious socialization. The first model is the most popular among residents of large cities, while traditional families choose the second one.