THE ORIENTATION TOWARDS MODERNIZATIONIN THE LEGAL CULTURE OF THE LIBERAL INTELLIGENTSIA IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE OF THE SECOND HALFOF THE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURY
Background: legal culture in modern theory of law and other legal disciplines acts as a promising object of scientific research, since it can be used in the study of the predictability of human behavior, which embodies the operation of legal norms. Objective: to determine one of the attitudes of the legal culture of the liberal intelligentsia as an active social group in the Russian Empire for the subsequent study of its legal culture as a whole. Methodology: to extract one of the attitudes from the integral object of research within the framework of an interdisciplinary approach, a system-structural method was used, and the method of comparative analysis was also used to restore the discourse of the period under study. Results: a reliable systemic component of a complex object of research was obtained, which allows to continue its progressive research in the future. Conclusions: the attitude towards modernization was an integral part of the legal culture of the liberal intelligentsia and determined its behavior towards the main normative acts of the period under study and its attitude to the existing state system.