PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS OF POPULATION OF THE MARI EL REPUBLIC IN TERMS OF ETHNIC INTEGRATION STRATEGIES
The article is based on the material of the sociological studies of the end of the XX - the beginning of the XXI century and it is devoted to the consideration of the public consciousness of the Mari El Republic population in terms of ethnic integration strategies. The purpose of the work is to identify the degree of the orientation of the respondents to active interethnic interaction on the basis of the analysis of two indicators: the importance of the person’s nationality in the process of communication and preferences regarding the national composition of the group.