DEFINITION, FEATURES AND STRCUTURE OF THE LEGAL CULTURE OF SERVICEMEN

Abstract

The article is dedicated to determining the definition, features and structure of the legal culture of servicemen.

The definition of the legal culture of a serviceman is presented as a complex of judicial values, abilities and skills which altogether determine his legal behavior.

There’re arguments provided in favor of the idea that the culture of servicemen happens to have the following features: a) a variety of the general culture of the serviceman which happens to develop in the course nurturing within the family and the initial socialization in the system of common middle-professional education; b) is characterized by a number of layers and consists of the legal culture of the citizen, which includes the legal culture of a serviceman and which in its turn consists of the legal culture of a cadet, officers, sergeants and non-commissioned officers and privates etc; c) has influence on both the behavior of the serviceman, but also the existing overall level of legal culture of military entities.

Based on the analyses of the elements of the legal culture of the serviceman it was possible to determine the following elements of its structure: а) the theoretic-legal culture (doctrinal knowledge with regard to the essence and the peculiarities of law, the legal norm, state, rights and freedoms of the individual and other legal phenomena, that indirectly influence the social relations in a state and determine the content of the generic and special legislation); b) the military-legal culture (knowledge in the field of military law, abilities and skills in terms of his implementation in different situations in the line of duty); c) the informational-legal culture (the complex of knowledge, abilities and skills of legally just behavior in informational relations). It includes a pretty broad spectrum of elements – starting with the behavior of the servicemen on the social media and finishes with the protection of personal data of one’s subordinates; d) the linguistic-legal culture ( the complex of knowledge, ability and skills, which allow to freely operate with the foreign military terminology, including the one that is implemented in administrative, operative, and NATO material-technical standards; e) the pedagogical-legal culture (the complex of special methods and means to develop knowledge, abilities and skills, value orienteers and persuasions based on the realization of the rule of law among the subordinates and other servicemen).