CONCEPT OF ETHNOS: SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL DEFENITION
This article gives the definition of ethnos as a concept, which represents a classical form of ethnicity. Ethnos described as social system, which exists as culture. Ethnical culture consists of two parts: mythologems, which reinforce ethnical values in the forms of conception about past, present and the future of ethnos, and psychologems – psychological mechanisms, which makes the organization, translation creative conversion and realization of mythologems. Connection between actual requirements, mythologems, psychologems and relevant external factors mediated through collective meanings. Access to the meanings due adoption of cultural codes. Ethnos defines as social system, satisfying socio-cultural needs through the agency of collective meanings, which based on the mythologems and psychologems of ethnical culture. Norms, patterns of behavior and rites are forming on the basis of collective meanings. These meanings are organizing cooperation activity, and this activity satisfying requirements.