THEORETICAL APPROACHES OF STUDY NATIONALISM
There is a variety of theories in the national and foreign sciences, which consider nationalism from the point of view of original, functional, narrative and modern approaches. However, opinions differ and there is no universal theory, which is able to explain such a sociocultural phenomenon, because multinational societies have various forms of nationalism - large and small nationalism. This article is devoted to different types and forms of nationalism, which can depend on historical, social, political and economic conditions. Sometimes nationalism has a positively influence on the development of society, for example, civil, Risorgimento, large nationalism. In some cases nationalism (integral, small, radical, irredentism) can contribute to the spit of society. The author comes to a conclusion: 1) various forms of nationalism exist in society, they can be dominating or marginal; 2) it is impossible to formulate an universal theory of nationalism, explaining all processes in society; 3) to understand the reasons of nationalism, it is necessary to use modern transformation theories of elites, power and human institutions, which result in beginnings and spread of nationalism. The article has a theoretical and methodological character and allows to generalize the existing science conceptual approaches to this issue.