Study of Representations on Legal Standards in the Structure of Legal Consciousness of Students of Legal Faculties

Abstract

The article presents research data on the dynamics of the changes in the structure of legal consciousness of law students in the process of higher legal education. The role of legal consciousness in the structure of human existence is shown. The structure, functions and levels of legal consciousness of the individual are analyzed. The specifics of the consciousness of the young people as a socio-demographic group, the interest of the society in a targeted impact on the young generation in order to form stable internal beliefs, which undoubtedly affects the feeling for legal norms among higher education student. The authors note the positive role of legal awareness in forming legal culture among young people. Thirty students of Jurisprudence specialties of the first and fifth courses were examined 15 students in each group. As a method for identifying ideas about legal norms in the structure of law awareness, the method of semantic differential was chosen, which allows us to identify the subjects' ideas about the object under study and to identify the most significant ones. A law awareness structure analysis at the beginning and end of training revealed that all students went through three stages of professionalism: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence. By the completion of their studies at the university, students enter the third stage of conscious competence.