The problem of forming the legal consciousness of the individual in modern society

Abstract

The article explores the problem of formation of legal consciousness of the individual within the framework of current global changes of socio-economic and political nature, the role of legal consciousness in the process of legal socialization. The phenomenon of legal consciousness is considered as the ratio of subjective feelings and representations of an individual, social groups, and society to the formed system of law, the ratio of existing rules of interaction in society in legal and desired relations. At the present stage of development, legal consciousness is a single, complex and multi-structured system that determines and regulates the skills of legal behavior. Legal consciousness is the core criterion for the formation and functioning of a legitimate civilized state. The article deals with the importance of individual personal traits, characteristics of subjective representations and attitudes to the law, legislation, ideology in the process of formation of individual legal consciousness.