*Professor, Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of the Almalyk TSTU Branch, Uzbekistan
Online published on 22 February, 2021.
The article is devoted to one of the important social problems of a multiethnic society.It is known that the effective development of any social organism depends on a balanced relationship between its constituent elements.An important component of the social structure of a multinational society is its ethnic composition.It is the state of interethnic relations in society that largely determines social stability, the vector and pace of its development. In this article, the author examines interethnic relations in the Republic of Uzbekistan.Building a civil society presupposes the guarantee and provision of human rights, the rule of law and the satisfaction of the humanistic needs of citizens.Self-identification of a person forms his essential characteristic as a social individual.In the article, the author puts forward the idea of convergence and compatibility of national identity with civil identity, which is especially important in the process offorming the younger generation. The government's policy of harmonizing interethnic relations, as well as the policy towards the country's youth, involves creating an atmosphere of friendship and cohesion in society, strengthening in the minds of every citizen the feeling of a single multinational family, regardless of his nationality, race and religious beliefs.According to the author, the balance and compatibility are important components of interethnic and social harmony of national and civic identification of citizens, and, in particular, representatives of the younger generation, which, in turn, is a condition for stabilizing the social sphere of society.
Multiethnic society, Identification, National self-awareness, Youth, Civic identity, National identity, National independence, Civil society, Tolerance, Interethnic accord, Culture, Values