Legal culture: selected aspects in the context of legal theory and the legal organization of Belarusian society

Introduction. The article is written in continuation of the theoretical studies of legal culture presented in the author’s scientific works. The phenomenon of legal culture is considered in the context of the theoretical provisions formed within the framework of the information-semiotic and activitybased approaches to the study of legal culture in legal studies, which allows us to characterize certain aspects of legal culture within the framework of the provisions of legal theory and the practice of organizing the legal life of Belarusian society.

Materials and methods. The paper presents the information, communication, and activity aspects of legal culture. The integration of these approaches is intended to characterize the specifics of national legal culture. General scientific methods of generalization and systematization, as well as the specific scientific method of formal-dogmatic analysis, have been applied.

Analysis. The information-semiotic approach to the study of legal culture is revealed through the characteristics of legal signs and symbols formed in the national legal system. The activity aspect of legal culture is presented from the standpoint of the essential features of law-making, law enforcement and law-educational activities, which together characterize the peculiarities of legal communication.

Results. Theoretical provisions have been formed, which are intended to characterize the distinctive features of the legal life of modern Belarusian society, assess the level of legal culture of society, and predict the directions of social legal development. The defining role in the formation and functioning of legal culture as a social phenomenon is recognized for lawmaking and legal education, which establish the qualitative characteristics of all spheres of legal life in modern society. 

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