TO THE ISSUE OF INCREASING THE POSITIVE LEVEL OF LEGAL ACTIVITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL AT THE PRESENT STAGE OF SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT

The article examines a number of issues related to the impact of changes in the political and legal life of modern society on the legal activity of the individual, socially useful behavior of the individual, features of the individual elements in the structure of socially useful behavior, the mechanism of their interaction, and emphasizes the importance of social and legal processes of self-determination of the individual in the modern political and legal reality. The problem of socially useful behavior of the person and legal activity formed on its basis is presented as one of the most actual and important for the modern Russian democratic society which currently experiences the period of the formation in the new quality as stability and efficiency of social development of the latter is largely determined by a behavioral background, legal consciousness and legal culture of the person. The authors also identify the need to improve the level of legal awareness and legal culture of citizens at the present time as an important criterion for determining the civilization of society, which plays a leading role in the formation of legal statehood, and proposes possible solutions of this problem. The article considers legal education as an element of the system of legal education as a necessary part of the legal socialization of the individual, within which its value and legal orientation is formed. Their role in determining the lawful behavior of the subject in life is emphasized. The authors analyze the impact of legal activity of the individual on the whole course and character of the law-making through popular representation as a result of active participation of all citizens in general and equal elections, on the provision of state unity and national solidarity in general and equal elections, as a form of active manifestation of citizenship.

legal state, socially useful behavior, legal activity of the person, legal culture, legal consciousness, legal process, legal education, active citizenship, political and legal life of society, legal training, legal training technologies, participation in elections, lawful behavior.

Galustyan N. V., Ryabtsev A. L. To the issue of increasing the positive level of legal activity of the individual at the present stage of society development // Business. Education. Law. 2018. No. 3 (44). P. 267–274. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2018.44.312.