Barbashin M.U. The Social Processes of Institutional Disintegration in Ethnogeny. Barbashin M.U. The Social Processes of Institutional Disintegration in Ethnogeny. ISSN 0869-8120Posted on site: 14.11.13Текст статьи.AbstractIn the article the institutional disintegration processes and their role in ethnic identity formation are analyzed. The author analyzes that ethnic behavior is structured at the institutional level that is at the level of institutional exceptions, nstitutional exceptions in discourse space have autonomous functional mechanism of development. If ethnic communities consider institutional exceptions as behavioral imperative, it will lead to ethnogeny. Key words: ethnicity, neo-institutionalism, institutions, ethnogeny, nstitutional disintegration.