Civil and ethnic identity: the system of “access” to the community
The article analyzes the correlation of concepts such as “national”, “ethnic”, “civil” in relation to the study of social identity. on the basis of essentialist and constructivist approaches, the characteristic features of civil and ethnic nationalism and the corresponding types of identity are explicated. It is proved that the controversy between civil and ethnic identities is not reduced to their content, but mainly to the system of “access” to the community, in connection with which both types of identity have the same components, but different specifics of their manifestation. In the context of multipolar modernity, the effectiveness of the construction of civic identity is substantiate.