Abstract

The article discusses "personocentrism" and "systemocentrism", which define two uni ver s al quali t ie s t hat g i ve a c er t ain characteristic of any social system; it is proved that when forming a legal culture, the interests of the individual are taken into account in harmony with universal interests and serve them with their own satisfaction; new models of understanding legal culture in a broad context are being formed using the methodology and principles, and the conceptual apparatus of both general cultural studies and comparative research of legal culture with other elements of the legal system of the state; it is shown that personocentrism can include complementary elements that are not characterized by the maximum degree of predominance of individual interests over collective interests, namely their balance; various aspects of the concept of systemocentrism are shown to a greater extent as a socio-practical orientation for the formation of legal culture. The purpose of this article is to show the peculiarities of the functioning of the Russian legal system, to identify the role of legal awareness in ensuring the dynamic balance of the system, aimed at the formation of a sovereign regime of legality; to study the mechanism of inclusion of the system of law in the system of national security as a factor in ensuring the sovereignty of the legal system of the state. The methodological basis of the work was determined primarily by the complex nature of the subject of the study. The interaction of the legal components of the phenomenon under consideration with those that have been developed within the framework of other fields of knowledge: cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, and predetermined the complex, interdisciplinary nature of the research methods used, along with the methods characteristic of legal science. The methodology of the work was based on general methods of scientific research: in particular, methods of analysis, synthesis, conclusions from the general to the particular and from the particular to the general, ascent from the concrete to the abstract, and others. Of the methods inherent in legal science, it should be noted that the method of comparative jurisprudence plays a special role for this study, without which the study of legal culture is simply unthinkable. Conclusions. The main trends in the development of legal culture of modern society can be recognized as the following: consolidation and integration of legal cultural values of society on the basis of Russian traditional values; the direction of development in legal culture in the unity of two components "personocentrism" and "systemocentrism" is traced; in the field of theory of rights - the emergence of theories that formalize the law, in the field of legal awareness - "standardization" public legal consciousness as a consequence of the consolidation of society.