Lourié S.V. IInterethnic Marriages as a Cultural Phenomenon: Socio-Humanitarian and Natural-Science Aspects of Culture. Sibirian Journal of Anthropology, 2020, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (03), pp. 117-128.

Abstract

The stable level of interethnic marriage in Russia last half century are analyzed in the article. And it is despite  the multidirectional social processes in the country. The article is raised the question: perhaps the proportion  of  interethnic  marriages  depends  not  only  on  sociopolitical  processes?  Sociopolitical  processes  certainly      determine the motivation of people, but it depend on implicit ethnic processes Thus, culture has two sides: the  socio-humanitarian one, familiar to culturologists, and the equally important side is natural sciencely. This is natural  if we understand culture as the vital principle of society, similar to how we understand the soul as the vital principle  of the body. Culture has its bodily slice, existing along with the ideally slice. Exogamy as a cultural phenomenon  lies at the juncture of socio-humanitarian and natural-biological regularities. Keywords: Interethnic marriages, exogamy, culture, adaptation, complementarity, values, motivation.