Monitoring the discourse of interethnic relations in the Krasnodar region. December 2002 - February 2003 Academic discourse
The regional academic environment (field, discourse) operates with systems for describing the "ethnic", in which, creating "ethnic groups", it asserts their long-term, almost eternal existence. Ethnographers, sociologists, political scientists easily swap such concepts as "ethnos", "people", "ethno-cultural community", etc. At the same time, practically no one specifies what he means by these terms, because there were only several concepts of "ethnic groups" in Soviet science: S.M.