BASIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF LEGAL CULTURE IN MODERN LEGAL SCIENCE

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that this article examines the issue of the relationship between legal culture and other fundamental legal concepts, and also considers the main approaches to defining the concept of legal culture. As one of the areas of research. a comparative analysis of this category is carried out in various approaches to this legal phenomenon. The axiological, activity-based, semiotic approaches to the concept and characteristics of legal culture are analyzed.The relationship between legal culture and general social culture and its elements such as material, spiritual, political and other types of culture has been studied. The influence of the general legal culture on the development of legal culture is considered. This problem is poorly studied, which indicates its relevance.The correlation of legal culture with legal consciousness is investigated, recognizing that its development is due to the fact that legal culture is based on the legal consciousness of society as a whole and the individual legal consciousness of citizens.The article reveals the structure of legal culture, notes the ambiguity of its elements. The existence of such concepts as regional or local legal culture is noted. The study indicates the importance of legal culture, which is due to the fact that on its basis, the basic, generally recognized in any state, patterns of behavior are formatted.The relationship between legal culture and legal behavior is analyzed. It is only thanks to such a connection that a stable provision of social order in society is created.The main features of legal culture, such as normativity and progressiveness, are revealed, which make it possible to single out this concept from among other legal phenomena.The scientific novelty of the research was due to the fact that the article studied the problems of improving legal culture. The importance of increasing the legal culture is due to the fact that this is the basis for the formation of the rule of law. Within the framework of improving the legal culture, such a direction as legal education, aimed at various age categories, with an emphasis on the legal education ofyoung people, is highlighted. The hanging of legal culture is not possible without raising the general culture of society and taking into account the mentality of the people, as well as raising the level of legal awareness.The article concludes that legal culture is the basis for the development and formation of many other legal phenomena, it is noted that it is impossible to speak without increasing the legal culture of the population and the individual about the formation of legal consciousness, legal relations and the development of law at the present stage of development of society, development civil society and the rule of law.