Ethnic bias — primary background of formation of national identity

Abstract

There is represented an analysis of research’s approaches of self-consciousness as a component of an individuality’s structure in the article. On the basis of this scientific analysis there is defined that ethnic prejudices are a foundation of formation of a national self-consciousness in a biosphere system of orientation of an individuality. Also the consciousness as an object of research social psychology is considered that on the one hand, social category, and with another — a social and psychological phenomenon and is a psychofunctional transforming component of consciousness of the personality.