Pozdnyakov M. Synergetic dimension of Ethnology (philosophical and methodological analysis).

The thesis solved the problem of the application of synergetic concepts in the context of ethnology, and on that basis defined the postnonclassical prospects of ethnology, in particular, creation of a general theory of ethnic self-organization. It was considered the theoretical approaches to the study of ethnic communities, the contradictions in existing conceptions were founded. Philosophical foundations of the investigations of ethnic groups were considered in the subject field of synergetics. The methodological perspective for building of ethnology as a science are regarded as based on the synergetic basis. It was summed up that synergetic approach allows removing the contradiction between theoretical researches of objectivist and subjectivist conceptions. Ethnogenesis of the Ukrainians is considered in terms of the implementation of key synergetic notions.