LEGAL CULTURE AND LEGAL AWARENESS OF TRANSITIVE SOCIETIES: PROBLEMS OF ANALYSIS AND TRANSFORMATION

The article is devoted to the problems of analysis and transformation of legal culture and legal awareness of transitive societies. The aim of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the legal culture and legal awareness of transitive societies. It is revealed that the transitional state of world society has provoked an exponential decline in the level of legal culture and legal consciousness of the population of almost all countries of the world. As for Ukraine, it is quite natural to deepen the crisis, since now our country is passing through two transitional states at once: 1) from a totalitarian country to a democratic, liberal one; 2) from a quarantine to a post-quarantine state. It is concluded that all of the above must be taken into account when trying to implement reforms, because the legal con‑ sciousness of transitive societies due to the factor of uncertainty and crisis tends to deform, and therefore is too vulnerable to any «movements» of state institutions and is subject to their negative assessment in advance. The steps and messages of the authorities during this period should be doubly balanced, because it is important to provide appropriate guarantees to victims of quarantine restrictions, use state coercion and legal liability measures in a balanced way to comply with them, but, at the same time, ensure the principles of equality, impartiality and non-discrimination, in the plane of which the prospects for research on the chosen topic are located. It is noted that during the quarantine restrictions, the legal consciousness of residents of all countries of the world has un‑ dergone significant fluctuations, and this is a common feature. At the same time, at the level of legal culture, the legal situation looked completely heterogeneous.