Preparedness of the mountain Jews for inter-ethnic communication: integration potential and conflict zones

The results of a sociological study of the interethnic attitudes of Mountain Jews are showed in this article. The process of ethnic-contacting was described. We considered attitudes towards maintaining interethnic contact in their mass consciousness. It is showed their cultural distance in various spheres of interethnic communication. We showed the orientation of Mountain Jews on interethnic communication through the establishment of the frequency and intensity of ethnic-contacts, their evaluation by the respondents themselves, the characteristics of the attractiveness of spheres of interpersonal interaction by sociological analysis. We established the contradictory nature of the interethnic interaction of Mountain Jews on the basis of empirical information. There is the orientation toward interethnic communication on the one hand and a certain degree of self-isolation on the other. It was revealed that various factors influence the formation of institutions for international communication. It should be to note the educational process in the family, the level of education, social and ethnic space, state national policy, the microenvironment in the working collective, the ethnic stereotypes in the mass consciousness, prejudices and personal life experience. The conducted study shows positive perception and evaluation of interethnic communication, the orientation towards maintaining ethnical contacts in the mass consciousness of Mountain Jews. It is the basis for the formation of a positive, normal ethnic identity, thanks to which interethnic tolerance and interethnic harmony in a multinational environment are formed.