Open AccessPROBLEMS OF FORMATION OF THE LEGAL CULTURE OF THE MODERN SOCIETY
Author(s) -
Арман Серикович Ахметов,
Arman Ahmetov
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
žurnal zarubežnogo zakonodatelʹstva i sravnitelʹnogo pravovedeniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9995
pISSN - 1991-3222
DOI - 10.12737/article_593fc3439943f8.88868960
Subject(s) - legal culture , law , legal profession , political science , legal realism , democracy , rule of law , philosophy of law , empirical legal studies , legal history , state (computer science) , sociology , comparative law , politics , algorithm , computer science
This article analyzes the legal culture of the modern society. The aim of the paper is to select the values of the legal culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan during its development as a democratic state. Special attention is paid to the study of axiological aspects of the legal culture in the process of development of democratic state and formation of civil society. The scientific work was based on a scientific research of Kazakh and foreign authors on nature of law, legal culture, its values in the process of formation of civil society and a state governed by the rule of law. The author believes that legal culture is a phenomenon quite complex and diverse in its internal structure and variety of social relations. The legal culture is not only knowledge of the laws, norms of law and methods of their use, however, and involves them as mandatory elements of the legal system. Legal culture includes awareness and the level of law-enforcement activities in the interests of ensuring and strengthening the rule of law. There are a few conclusions at the end of the article. The author believes that the legal culture is a certain steady state of social consciousness and social practice whish are based on repeated certain activities, the systematic functioning of the various structural elements of the legal system — the law, morality and traditions.