Katsapova, I. A. Social and Cultural Understanding of Legal Reality

Abstract: Review: legal reality was initially viewed in individual and social psychologies which understood law as a social formation taking many forms. In terms of social management, law and legal consciousness are needed to keep just and peaceful living community. This very well corresponds with I. A. Ilyin’s saying that all history can be viewed as the history of developing of legal consciousness. Key words: philosophy, law, social and cultural, life-sustaining activity, social relations, creation of norms, system, legal consciousness.