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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 3

Formation of legal consciousness in the process of legal socialization of the person in education

I. I. Shatsionok
Siberian State Transport University, 191 D. Kovalchuk St., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630049
Keywords: legal consciousness, legal socialization, socialization, education, primary and secondary socialization, legal culture

Abstract

The purpose of article is the analysis of formation of legal consciousness of the student youth in the process of legal socialization. Various approaches are revealed to education as a system which has several functions, the leading one being socialization. Education is a rather independent social system, whose goal is the transfer of sociocultural values. It is a social reality where the subjects reproduce multiple relations and communications, carrying out various functions on the development of the individual and his/her socialization. It is also possible an internally formed, individual educational space, which forms in the experience of everyone, that is, his/her socialization. Definitions of legal consciousness and legal socialization are given, the factors promoting formation of the developed legal consciousness of the student youth are considered. Legal socialization of students promotes formation of legal consciousness of the adults who have small life experience. It leads to some difficulties connected with the need to find a proper relation between the already absorbed values and the values, the following of which is demanded by new knowledge and acquired skills. Legal socialization is understood as a process of assimilation by the person of the standards of normative, lawful behavior. Though legal socialization is carried out in line with the general socialization, it has some specific features and a historically conditioned character. As is known, each society has its specific type of the state system, the idea of law, the rules and the ways of participation of the individuals in the affairs of society. Legal socialization consists in assimilation by the individual of these norms and rules of social existence in the given society. It is possible to identify three types of legal socialization: socialization by means of learning, socialization by transfer of experience and «symbolical socialization».