LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: PARADOXES OF MODERN SOCIETY
The purpose of the study is to reflect on law and social justice, which reveal a paradox in Russian society, a discrepancy between the declared goals and the realities of social life, that the development of social life and the formulated legal principles are in a state of semantic and functional asymmetry. The research methodology is based on the ideas of sociocultural splits of a good society and an unfair social order formed by Russian researchers. The results of the study are as follows: a certain conceptual incompleteness of the discrepancy between the concepts of law and social justice is revealed in the context of the fact that social justice is an epistemological void and can be incorporated into the system of actual law as a measure determining equality of opportunities for citizens, thereby excluding the introduction of moral imperatives into the system of law, which in this case becomes the logic of duty. An important point is the convergence of «imperfect» law with social justice as a social meritocracy based on the improvement of procedural equality. The prospects of the study lie in the fact that a conceptual study of the conditions for the conformity of law and social justice according to the criterion of rationality is required, as well as the identification of real trends in assessing the understanding of justice in various layers of Russian society in order to predict legal innovations.