Makovskaya D. The contradictory nature of ethnic status as a factor in ethnopolitical conflict

The object of study - ethno-political conflict as a specific type of social and political conflict. Subject of study - the contradictory status of ethnic, which is regarded as the driving force that determines the appearance and development of ethno-political conflict. Methods: dialectical, systemic synergistic approach, structural functionalism, the theory of social conflict, resource-based approach, a coherent theory of ethnicity. Scientific novelty: ethno-political conflict as a factor considered by the contradictory status of ethnic and opened its influence on the emergence and development of ethno-political conflict, disclosed the nature and content of the concept of "ethnic status inconsistency," by which we understand the inconsistency of different ethnic group status and / or inconsistency of the subjective and objective ethnic status.