Contra-Cultural Elements in Lawmaking As the Negative Aspect of Legal Life In the Modern Russian Society: the Issue of Indication and Minimization
The relevance of the present research is determined by current phenomena in lawmaking of the modern Russia; the fact that these phenomena do not always correlate given standards and cultural criteria causes lawmaking mistakes and defects in law (viewed as the result of legislators’ activities). The subject of the research is represented by contra-cultural elements in lawmaking characterized as negative aspect of legal life of the Russian society. The work is aimed to make common theoretical investigation of the issue of contra-cultural elements in lawmaking. The authors conceptualize anti-cultural tendencies in lawmaking and describe them in the context of dialectical logics and theory of lawmaking culture in the capacity of antipode to cultural manifestations in lawmaking. The authors also identify the correlation between culture and anti-culture in lawmaking and legal life of the society. To achieve the purposes of the research the authors apply common and private legal methods. In the end they make conclusion concerning negative influence of contra-cultural manifestations on lawmaking results and the need of their minimization.