TOPICAL ISSUES OF INCREASING LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND LEGAL CULTURE

Аннотация

This thesis is devoted to current issues of increasing legal awareness and legal culture, as well as the analysis of social relations arising in relation to legal awareness and legal culture. Key words: society, education, law, legal awareness, legal culture Legal culture is the most multifaceted and little-studied phenomenon in life. Considering that this is a new direction of research in jurisprudence, maximum connected with legal culture and legal consciousness, it must be said that legal culture and legal consciousness are independent elements of civil society and the rule of law. The concepts we are considering generally reflect the internal, mental and spiritual aspects of society, the state of development of law, legal relations, legality and law and order, law-making, law enforcement and any other legal activity. In essence, legal culture and legal consciousness are very similar, only in the first case we are talking about the level of knowledge of law, the way of behavior of an individual, and in the second case - about the level of development of society, awareness of the role of law and legal literacy in a more global sense. The concepts under consideration are closely related to such development features as socio-cultural, historical types of various ethnic groups, 24 CURRENT APPROACHES AND NEW RESEARCH IN MODERN SCIENCES International scientific-online conference social stability and law and order. At the same time, it is by legal culture that the state of development of society of a particular state is very often assessed. Considering the legal consciousness of citizens and legal culture in the theoretical and legal aspect, it can be noted that it is inextricably linked with legal culture. This thesis can also be supplemented by the fact that science has well developed the categories of "legal consciousness" and "legal science" as objective factors of the legal life of people, at the same time, all this work allows us to turn to the inner world of a person, and determine its subjective component in behavior. Scientists note that the ambiguity of understanding legal consciousness and legal culture leads to a confusion of the content of the category of legal consciousness with concepts reflecting various aspects and elements of legal regulation. Legal consciousness seems to exist as an independent legal phenomenon, but at the same time it is not possible to clearly distinguish it from other legal phenomena. The lack of certainty in understanding the category of legal consciousness, the infinitely broad interpretation of its content ultimately lead the theory of law to obvious logical contradictions. Previously, the category of legal consciousness was mainly derived by deduction from the philosophical category of public consciousness. However, with all the advantages of this path, it conceals the danger of underestimating the circumstance that public consciousness in itself is not the source or basis of legal consciousness. Scientists note that a theoretical and legal analysis of the processes of formation and development of legal consciousness is possible only taking into account the multifactorial changes occurring in modern society. For any science, the development of specific concepts and definitions will be practically useful and in demand. It is in view of this task that scientists propose to understand legal consciousness as "a set of views, beliefs, assessments, ideas about law and legality, inherent in society as a whole or a specific individual. Also, it should be added that the concepts under consideration include such indicators as the level of knowledge of the law, the degree of its approval by citizens, the development of skills in legal regulation". [3] Favorable trends in the development of public relations and the determination of the effectiveness of interactions between citizens are closely related to the increase in the level of legal knowledge. 25 CURRENT APPROACHES AND NEW RESEARCH IN MODERN SCIENCES International scientific-online conference The reforms carried out in the Republic of Uzbekistan are aimed at implementing the main provisions of the "Development Strategy of the New Uzbekistan for 2022-2026", aimed at improving the public administration system, which involves "the introduction of effective mechanisms for dialogue with the people; the development of modern forms of public control, the development of civil society institutions, increasing their social and political activity" [1], etc. The essence of the reforms is expressed in the main principle "It is not the people who should serve government bodies, but government bodies should serve the people" [2]. One must agree with the opinion of some scientists that “today in legal science the most common approach to defining legal consciousness is its interpretation as a set of views, assessments and emotions, through which the attitude of a person and public associations to the current law is expressed” [4] According t