Issues of formation of legal consciousness of personality

Abstract

The relevance of this issue is a contradiction between the social conditions requiring special requirements for the formation of legal consciousness of a person and insufficient knowledge of psychological and pedagogical factors and mechanisms of its development, weak development of theoretical and methodological aspects of the problem. The methodological basis of the theoretical research was the system-structural approach; general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, unity of historical and logical were applied; the object was considered at the interface of psychology and law. The results of the study showed that the legal consciousness of the person acts both as the process and as the result of the development by the individual of a relatively stable conscious system of representations about himself in the legal space, consciousness as a subject of law, roles, goals, interests, value orientations, ideals and motives of legal behavior. It is the identification of oneself, attitude and the assessment of the possibilities in legal relations, which are a necessary component of legal consciousness as a whole. Legal consciousness can act in the form of individual and in the form of social consciousness depending on the subject (large and small social groups). Legal consciousness does not have an independent path of development separate from the development of the individual. Legal identity - a dynamic, historically developing education, acting at different levels and in different forms, is a complex structural entity. Legal consciousness of a person includes three main components: cognitive, emotionally-evaluative (self-attitude), and behavioral. Each of the considered components, in turn, has a complex structure that reflects a variety of processes, modalities of "I", and mechanisms of legal consciousness. The origin of deformations of a person's legal consciousness is explained by violations in its structure and functions. New directions have been identified in the study of the phenomenon of legal consciousness of the person, including the phenomena of bullying and cyberbullying, harassment, legal activity, criminal and antisocial subcultures, legal consciousness of LGBT persons and ecological consciousness. © 2019 LLC Ecological Help. All rights reserved.