ЕTHNICITY POLITICIZATION RESEARCH: METHODOLOGICAL DISCOURSE
The problem of the politicized ethnicity is ranked as the most intractable, and despite a significant number of researches, there is a gap in this field. Numerous publications of the last years confirm scales of terminological expansion of politicization of ethnicity; however there is no unity opinion in a scientific definition of this phenomenon that testifies to the relevance of the declared subject. The article reveals cognitive analysis of politicization of ethnicity in terms of research paradigms of ethnicity. Interactions of constant components of ethnicity and poly structural variable factors (impulses) of the environment activity in the structure of politicization ethnicity are considered. As the form of ideology, political and legal practice, the politicized ethnicity is provided in the functional restructuring of the institutional status of the ethnonation, its legal self-determination and focused on achievement, change, fixing and legitimation of legal status of the ethnonation in ethnosocial and political and legal structure of multiethnic society. In the course of ethnicity of politicization the author allocates ethnicity crisis as the main driving force and purposeful "mobilization" of the ethnonation, with broad application of the ethnopolitical mythology satisfying all segments of the population, effective use and intensive designing of the dialogized reference points and metaphors, systems of traditional values, symbols.