LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND LEGAL CULTURE
This chapter of the course manual in jurisprudence discloses the notion of legal consciousness. Comprehending law, legislation, principal state and legal institutes manifests itself in law enforcement. One shouldn't absolutize the role of legislation as it is, since it is only after texts of normative acts go through the prism of legal consciousness of the actor's personality, they convert into some behaviour patterns. Legal consciousness has a definite structure, it is divided into levels. Legal ideology and legal psychology appear as levels of legal culture. A significant part in law enforcement and all of its realization forms is assigned to classifications of legal consciousness according to a number of subjects (group, individual, mass consciousness), and according to the content (common, professional, doctrinal consciousness). Legal culture is considered as legal consciousness with a positive content.