SOCIAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE LEGAL CULTURE: THEORETICAL ASPECT ; СУЧАСНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО ВИВЧЕННЯ ПРАВОВОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ: ТЕОРЕТИЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ
The article investigates an important factor of democratic society – legal culture. The article analyzes the research approaches that can be used in the study of legal culture. In particular, to investigate legal culture researchers use the following approaches: subjec-tive, activity, anthropological, technological, sociological, axiological, philosophical, socio-anthropological and informationally semiotic. The advantages and disadvantages of each of the theoretical approaches in the study of legal culture are shown. It is pointed out that depending on the chosen approach in the study of legal culture, the focus of the research will be placed within research capabilities of the certain approach. Most research approaches consider different aspects of legal culture, such as sense of justice, values, practices, status and dynamics of legal culture development. This imposes certain limitations for the researchers, as it does not allow to study this topic fully. Comprehensive study of the legal culture can be carried out in terms of sociological approach. The article shows that it is a sociological approach that allows to examine all components of the legal culture, namely sense of justice and legal practices. Also within this approach, it is possible to study the status and evolution of the legal culture on different stages of society development. The study of legal culture in a modern Ukrainian society is considered as well. It is revealed that modern legal culture studies have certain disadvantages and shortcomings. In particular, sociological investigations of the legal culture in Ukraine are characterized with fragmentation and practical orientation.Keywords: legal culture, sense of justice, theoretical approaches. ; Проаналізовано дослідницькі підходи, які можна використовувати під час ви-вчення правової культури. Виявлено переваги та недоліки кожного із них у дослідженні правової культури. Запропоновано оптимальний підхід до вивчення правової культури в межах соціології.Ключові слова: правова культура, правосвідомість, теоретичні підходи.