LEGAL CULTURE: CONCEPT AND FUNCTIONS
In the context of the national-cultural revival of Russia, orientation toward building a rule of law and a democratic society, the problem of legal culture is of great importance. The state of development of society and the state largely depends on the level of the focused process of formation of legal awareness and legal culture of members of society. It should be noted that radical changes in the social, economic, political, information spheres cause a change in legal thinking, legal behavior, which in turn necessitates an adequate response to these changes by legal means through legal education and raising the level of legal culture. The development of civil society and the rule of law directly depends on the members of this society (on the citizens of this state), since the legal culture is an integral characteristic of the legal development of society as a whole and of each individual. Thus, the purpose of this article is to analyze the definitions of legal culture, as well as to study the functions of legal culture and the author's definition of this concept. Methods: dialectics, analysis and synthesis, methods of logical analysis. The concept of "legal culture" has many planes and shades that embody the culture of action of the law itself, compliance with the legal standards of humanism, the rule of law, internal traditions, and customs. Based on scientific research, we can conclude that the main functions of the legal culture: determine the direction (vector) of the necessary impact on the objective legal reality; determine the needs of the social and legal development of society; carry out the direct process of legal impact on the objective legal reality (activity of the action of law); reflect the features of the dynamic and static regulation of public relations through the ability to use legal tools. Lies in the fact that the main functions of legal culture are revealed: regulatory, humanistic, historical, cognitive, communicative, prognostic, educational, which make it possible to determine the concept, meaning and essence of legal culture.