Institutionalization of the Novosibirsk scientific school of ethnosociology: ideas, approaches, forms of activity

Abstract

The authors consider the features of genesis, stages of formation, theoretical and methodological foundations, basic ideas and approaches developed within the framework of the Novosibirsk Scientific Ethnosociological School. A description of the forms of activity, scientific ties and communicative practices that determined the process of its institutionalization is given. It is concluded that this scientific school meets the criteria for this kind of organization of the scientific community, both in terms of organizational structure, unity of research methodology and methods, forms of interdisciplinary communication, reproduction of scientific personnel, and based on an assessment of its role in regulating interethnic interactions and ethnosocial processes.