ETHNIC DIVERSITY AS A PARAMETER OF THE CIVILIZATION PROCESS
The article is devoted to ethnic diversity as a parameter to distinguish between cultural elements involved in the synthesis of inter-ethnic peoples of the local civilization. It is proposed to solve the problem of the relation of the universal and original in modern scientific theories to support the paradigm of socio-cultural approach (P. Sorokin, A. Akhiezer, N. Lapin). Socio-cultural approach is seen as a special case of a wide range of concepts neo-modernist persuasion (J. Habermas, A. Giddens, U. Beck).