Title: Legal awareness and its significance when determining the nature of a person's legal behaviour

Authors: Ermek Abdrasulov; Akmaral Saktaganova; Indira Saktaganova; Sayash Zhenissov; Zhassulan Toleuov

Addresses: Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Constitutional Law, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan ' Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Constitutional Law, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan ' Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Constitutional Law, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan ' Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Constitutional Law, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan ' Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Constitutional Law, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Abstract: Legal awareness is considered a part of consciousness and is an important component of social adaptation. That is why knowledge is especially significant in how legal awareness affects the nature of human behaviour. The purpose of this article is to investigate possible behavioural features of legal behaviour and their relationship with legal awareness, as well as to understand how legal awareness and its qualitative characteristics affect the nature of legal behaviour. Classical methods of information analysis and structuring, methods of classification, logical explanation, finding causal relationships, and generalisation were used as research methods. Because of the research, the main provisions of the relationship between the qualities of legal consciousness and the nature of the legal behaviour of the individual were formed. A conclusion was made about the influence and the importance of the qualities of legal awareness on the nature of the legal behaviour of the individual.

Keywords: non-conformal legal consciousness; conformal legal consciousness; legal consciousness and religion; social adaptation; defects of legal consciousness.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2023.133960

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2023 Vol.15 No.6, pp.578 - 590

Received: 10 May 2022
Accepted: 05 Oct 2022
Published online: 06 Oct 2023 *

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