ETHNOSOCIOLOGY
Lecture series by Prof. Alexandre Dugin. MSU
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Ethnosociology is not simply the sociology of the ethnic groups. It is something quite different. It is the particular method of studying human society as the development of its primordial and basic ethnic structure. So ethnosociology searches and finds ethnos not only where it is present explicitly, but also where it is absent on the surface but continues to exercise its hidden influence implicitly. Thus ethnosociology interprets “ethnically” also the cases of the non-ethnic societies. How? It will become clear during the development of the present course.
Introduction
The ethnos as sociological category
Definition of ethnos: M.Weber, S. Shirokogorov
Main features of the ethnos: the sacred, ethno-universum, collective identity, equality, eternal return
Paradigmatic approaches to the ethnos: primordialism, constructivism, instrumentalism
Process of the ethnosociological development: ethos - people - nation - civil society - global society - post-society
Diachronicity and synchronicity in the ethnosociology
American school of ethnosociology
Morgan Lewis: Ancient society
F. Boas: Founder of cultural anthropology
Catch Robert: Historical particularism
Abram Kardiner: Basic personality
Cora Du Bois: Structure of the modal personality
Clifford Geertz: Symbolic anthropology
Robert Redfield: Folk-society
McCoy Marriott: American ethnosociology today...
Russian school. Sergey Shirokogorov
S.M.Shirokogorov’s role in the creation of Ethnology
"The Social Organization" by Shirokogorov
Equilibrium theory of cultures - ethnic balance factor
Ethnic groups and the environment
Types of inter-ethnic interactions
Ethnic groups and war
Psycho-mental complex and Shamanism
Shirokogorov’s theory of ethnicity
PART II: ETHNO-STRUCTURE
"If we were to select the most intelligent,
imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind,
all races would be present".
Franz Boas
PART III: PEOPLE, NATION, POST-SOCIETY
German school of ethnosociology
Johann Gottfried Herder: people as thoughts of God
Johann Jakob Bachofen: mother’s right
Adolf Bastian: elementary thinking and peoples’s thinking
Leo Frobenius tellurism, chtonizm and paideuma
Franz Oppenheimer: the state as a result of ethnic conquest
Ferdinand Tönnies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Alfred Firkandt: phenomenology of ethnicity
Richard Thurnwald: systematization of knowledge ethnosociological
Wilhelm Mühlman: ethnicity, nation, Etnotzentrum...
English school of ethnosociology
English evolutionism
Edward Taylor: evolutionary series of culture and animism
Bronislaw Malinowski: functionalism and social anthropology
James George Frazer: the figure of the sacred king
Ernest Gellner: from the "Farmers" to the "industry"
Benedict Anderson, a nation as an imagined community
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard: transmission of cultures
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown: The Social Structure
French school of ethnosociology
Gilbert Durand anthropological structure of the imagination
Georges Dumezil: three-functional theory
Louis Dumont: hierarchical man and holism
Claude Levi-Strauss: structural anthropology
Maurice Leengardt: person and myth in archaic societies
Marcel Mauss: sociology of the gift
Emile Durkheim: social facts and the dichotomy sacred / profane
Russian school. Lev Gumilev
Lev Gumilev: a new stage of Ethnology
Passionarity and its variations
Phase of ethnogenesis
Phase diagram of ethnogenesis by Gumilev.
Hidden History of Eurasia
Ethnostatic
Phenomenology of ethnicity and ethnic thinking
Reversibility of ethnic intentionality
Operational language: magic and myth
Ethnozentrum and sacred space
Ethnicity and structures of time
Anthropology of ethnicity: shaman, gender, identity
Status, the person, the mask
Ethnic dichotomy
Gender and Work
Ethnostructure
Shaman as a key figure of the ethnos
Ethno-socialization
Ethnic time: Eternal return
Ethnic space
Ethnic landscape
Ethnokinetics
Manifestation of the Other
Beginning of the History
The Other is inside and outside
Irreversible social changes
The people
Internal and external "Other"
Anthropology of the people: the figure of a hero
Ethnic duality of the people
The poles of the people and ways of thinking
The role of nomads in laogenesis
Sociological forms of historical creations of the people
The State: mission and violence
The state, the phenomenon of birth and demos
Creation of the People: state, religion, civilization
Ethnodynamics
The Death as the Birth
Struggle against the new
Ethnic ontology
Humans and animals
Family structures
The nation
The modern state as a sociopolitical phenomenon
The nation as a particular type of society
The political and economic character of the nation
Ethnosociology of the city
The power of the bourgeoisie
The nation and the proletariat
Nationalism as an instrument of nation-building
Xenophobia, chauvinism, racism
Civil society and global society
Civil society as the antithesis of the ethnic group
Civil society and the nation
The figure of the Citizen (A.Kozhev)
Egotsentrum
The ideology of human rights
Global society and its boundaries
Post-society
Post-society concept
Critique of Modernity
Posthuman
Gender problem and pure sexuality
Sociology of clones and Superman
Post-society and global society
Final conclusions
Actual aims of ethnosociology
Arheomodern
Ethnic groups and ethnic relations in modern societies
Ethnic minorities and the practice of tolerance
Ethnic Conflicts