The Category “Legal Culture” in the System of Coordinates of the Conceptual Apparatus of Legal Science

Introduction. The relevance of the problems of legal culture is conditioned by a number of factors of general theoretical and social order, among which are the need to expand scientific ideas about legal culture taking into account social transformations, the needs of socio-legal practice and others. The type of theoretical and legal research of legal culture determines the need to build a logical conceptual series, which is called for a systematic representation of the object of cognition in the context of the formation of integrative knowledge about this socio-legal phenomenon. Methodology. Theoretical legal knowledge about legal culture is formed with the use of methods and approaches of philosophical and general scientific levels of cognition, taking into account the established in jurisprudence scientific approaches to the study of legal culture, first of all, cultural, axiological, sociological and a number of others. Results. Legal culture is presented in the system of coordinates of general scientific categories “civilisation”, “culture”, “cultural-genetic code (sociocode)”, “social value”, “mentality”, “social transformation” and others, as well as legal categories “legal idea”, “legal consciousness”, “legal mentality”, “legal tradition”, “legal system”, “legal life” and others. Conclusion. The approach implemented in the research allows us to characterise the legal culture of modern Belarusian society as a project of civilisational development. The obtained theoretical knowledge makes it possible to build a science-based strategy of socio-legal development of the Belarusian society, to form a concept of legal policy in accordance with the cultural-genetic code of social development.