Viner B.E. Most Important Elements of the Soviet Theory of Ethnos: Prospects for Use in Modern Theories of Ethnicity. Bulletin of the Irkutsk State University. Geoarchaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology Series. 2023, Vol. 45, pp. 77–92. https: ...

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Abstract

This paper continues the author's previous publication on the Soviet theory of ethnos , considering such elements of this theory as ethnic processes, ethnic self-consciousness, and taxonomic levels of ethnic communities. Thepaper draws an attention to the fact that the ideas of Russian ethnologists about the philosophicalpositions regarding the existence of social communities (or large social groups) arelimited by the constructivism-positivism dichotomy. Moreover, most of these ethnologists adopt a constructivist position, and some of them deny the very reality of ethnic communities. At the same time, in recent decades, English-speaking philosophers and social scientists have been intensively developing critical-realist theory as an alternative to the two named approaches. The paper offers to consider the problem of ethnicity within the framework of criticalrealism, using the time-tested elements of the theory of ethnos , such as the abovementioned ethnic processes, self-consciousness (or ethnic identity), and the concept of taxonomic levels of ethnic communities