Ethnos and nation: distinction between the terms in the globalization context

Analyzing global ethnicity activization, authors consider ethnos and the nation, not as mutually exclusive, but as steadily coexisting social groups. Distinction of phenomena of ethnos and the nation consists not in accessory characteristics (language, territory, etc.), as external attributes, and in reproduction and functioning mechanisms - the direct social heredity for ethnos and by means of interaction with political institutes and a civil society for the nation. The system crisis of the nation generated by globalization conducts to compensating activity of ethnic social structures and ethnic consciousness.