original understanding of the term dates back to the etymology of the word.And it happened in the East Slavic languages, according to linguists, the ancient verb "naroditi (be)" and closely associated with the concept of relationship.Interestingly, the root word - "born" and "relative".What are the people in the modern Russian language?This word is no doubt a much broader sense, as well as some basic values when used in speech.
Determination
So, what is the people in the conventional sense?This word can be defined as the entire population of a particular country or community of people, historically formed.But in any case it would be a group of people linked by some common criteria and indicators.Also, the people, the crowd - a large collection of human individuals gathered together (usually has a negative connotation in the interpretation).Distinguish the use of the term in the socio-political, cultural and ethnic sense.
Ethnography
What are the people in this context?Science deals with ethnographic description peoples.The basis of consideration - ethnicity (defined human group).Initially, this group is linked by ties of kinship, and then - the secondary characteristics: cultural heritage and customs, religious and language settings, as well as geographically.Scientists believe that these signs just distinguish one nation (ethnic group) from another.This so-called ethnic markers that are paramount (religious and cultural practices, for example) and secondary (this includes language, place of residence, etc.).If we take as an example of parsed Roma people, we see that its representatives are living in different countries, speak different languages (largely assimilating them), but are members of one people with common customs and traditions.
Political Economy
What is the concept of the people in the context of this science?Here, as a rule, it is opposed to the elite in power.And the people - the majority of the population does not have the privilege.The masses act as a basis, sometimes even determining the course of history (as has often happened in the years of the different revolutions).But mostly, for example, in political science, the attitude of the people from the elite, rather, the consumer, it uses ordinary people to come to power.
Other values
- Sometimes the concept of "people" identified with the concept of "nation".However, this is not entirely true.The nation as a community of people formed during the formation of the state.It is a broader concept, but limited spatial and temporal boundaries.People - though narrower concept (for example, one nation may be a few people, as it was in the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation), but, on the contrary, less bound by the principle of territoriality and temporal realities.The peoples sometimes exist outside the borders and practices established by the state.However, the various ethnic groups can also be combined into one nation.
- in the sense of "common people", which has negatively colored tint.It can be used as the separation of the power elite and the powerless crowd in political terms.
- is set to "public", "audience" for certain sectors of society (mainly in the creative environment and the business area).So, for example, bus drivers talk about their passengers.
peoples of the world
How many there are people on earth?The exact answer, resulting in publicly available scientific data to a common denominator, probably, will not give one.Some scientists believe that about two thousand, others - three, even three and a half.And when you consider the smallest and not the existing nations of the world?Some scientists maintain records on languages.And they are about 7000.And it depends on what criteria to define.Chulyms people, as you know, is the few in Russia.The number of its members barely more than 300 people.And in Latvia Livonians there were only 180 people.
Russian people
It is quite numerous (in different scientific data, from 129 to 150 million).Russian ethnicity are Eastern Slavs, formed from ancient Russian nationality and are the indigenous peoples of Russia (more than 80% of the population).Numerous Russian diaspora exist in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the United States, Belarus and Eastern Europe.There are some representatives in the more remote corners of our planet.
language spoken by the people - Russian.It belongs to a subgroup of the Eastern Slavic languages (Indo-European family).Writing using the Cyrillic alphabet.In the years of the Soviet Union (and now) Russian is the lingua franca.The main professed religion - Orthodoxy.Russian Orthodox Church - Russian Orthodox Church - is designed to unite the Russian people in the faith.Its diocese there and in other countries where live numerous members of our ethnic group.
