The Russian Law Effectiveness and Sociocultural Context

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of dependence of the application effectiveness of legal norms on their correspondence to the present sociocultural context of the society. The author criticizes the voluntary approach to lawmaking, which doesn't contain a conceptual appeal to the historically formed value corpus, cultural traditions and mentality peculiarities, and also to the life world's content. The authoring team formulates the basic sociocultural imperatives, the observance of which, in the process of developing legal norms, is intended to provide a sufficiently high level of public sense of justice.