Legal culture as an attribute of culture of society
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https://doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.2.2020.220398Keywords:
legal culture, culture, socio-cultural environment, society, attribute, legal awareness.Abstract
The article aims to study legal culture as an attribute of culture of society, which forms, and determines behavioral norms and rules in society, sovereignty, and legal awareness in cultural and historical context. Methodological base for this study includes socio-cultural, historical, axiological approaches, and the method of culturological analysis. Scientific novelty of the work lies in author’s attempt to ground legal culture as an attribute of culture of society, which forms and determines behavioral norms and rules in society, sovereignty, and legal awareness in cultural and historical context. Conclusions. Historically, legal culture is an inherent part of the whole culture of society, which combines all the spheres of human activity. Natural stage of civilization development formed a new transformation of mass culture of society, and objective preconditions for formation of the system of representation of legal actuality in views, feelings, i.e. legal awareness and legal culture as an attribute of culture of society. Legal culture reflects tendency and peculiarities of: society, formation and translation of culture in society, culture of its members, and, it changes along with the change of human, their minds, values, and stereotypes of behavior. Human is a social being, that’s why, when staying in society, they hold its fundamental features and qualities. Thus, legal culture, as a way of being in society, appears an essential attribute of society and its culture.
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