THE VALUES OF LEGAL CULTURE IN THE MINDS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that legal culture in its various manifestations is often considered abstractly, without relying on specific empirical material. Meanwhile, the scientific approach requires that any theoretical position requires verification. In addition, interp...
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LLC «MIAS Expert»
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Legal Bulletin |
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| Online Access: | https://en.legalbulletin.ru/data/documents/LB2024no2_4.pdf |
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| Summary: | The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that legal culture in its various manifestations is often considered abstractly, without relying on specific empirical material. Meanwhile, the scientific approach requires that any theoretical position requires verification. In addition, interpretations of legal culture that do not adequately reflect its essence are common in the scientific literature. First of all, we are talking about those models of legal culture that reduce it to law-abiding behavior and knowledge of the law, which, in the opinion of the authors, is completely insufficient. Thus, the essential value-ideological content of legal culture remains in the shadow. Having nothing against the concepts of “legality” and “law-abiding”, we note that this approach does not take into account the real diversity of completely legal targets, orientations of citizens existing in the political and legal sphere. The main goal - to show how the basic legal value categories “freedom”, “justice”, “equality” are reflected in the consciousness of such a social group as students. The problems under consideration. The main problem is seen in the fact that the approach to legal culture dominates in the legal literature, defined by the authors as monological, universalist or objective. This approach does not take into account the specifics of group consciousness and behavior, as well as the content of individual historical periods. With this approach, citizens are considered exclusively as objects of ideological influence, and culture itself is deprived of its main quality -diversity. This problem is solved within the framework of axiological and sociological approaches to the consideration of legal culture. The methods used. The authors, understanding legal culture as a normative value system that determines the behavior of individuals and social groups in the political and legal sphere, apply axiological and sociological approaches to the analysis of legal values. In particular, the results of interviewing university students are presented.
Conclusions. The basic values of legal culture are an interconnected complex. Depending on the content of the current situation, one or another value comes to the fore and acts as a systemforming element. In addition, there is a semantic modification of legal values in the process of their practical use as political and legal guidelines. Different interpretations of legal culture determine the technologies for the formation of legal culture, and here the main options are object (focusing on knowledge of laws and lawabiding behavior) and subjective (focusing on activity in protecting one’s own interests, using legal institutions both state and non-state).
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| ISSN: | 2658-5448 |