69 JURISPRUDENCE (12.00.00) LEGAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND LEGAL CULTURE DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14420/en.2016.3.1 Svetlana Boshno, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Editor in Chief «Law and Modern States» Comparative Studies, e-mail: boshno@yandex.ru. <...> Comprehending law, legislation, principal state and legal institutes manifests itself in law enforcement. <...> One shouldn’t absolutize the role of legislation as it is, since it is only after texts of normative acts go through the prism of legal consciousness of the actor’s personality, they convert into some behaviour patterns. <...> Legal consciousness has a definite structure, it is divided into levels. <...> Legal ideology and legal psychology appear as levels of legal culture. <...> A significant part in law enforcement and all of its realization forms is assigned to classifications of legal consciousness according to a number of subjects (group, individual, mass consciousness), and according to the content (common, professional, doctrinal consciousness). <...> Legal culture is considered as legal consciousness with a positive content. <...> Keywords: legal consciousness, legal culture, legal psychology, legal ideology, professional legal culture, doctrine, doctrinal legal consciousness, common legal consciousness, comprehending law. 1. <...> Term of legal conscious: definition, structure, functions Legal consciousness is a complex of conceptualization and feelings expressing the attitude of persons and social groups of people to the law in force and the desired law. <...> It is a set of objectively existing interdependent ideas, social emotions, groups, persons in respect of the law as a united social institution. <...> Legal consciousness is an estimation of the law in force, some hopes and expectations focused on the legal sphere, its transformation, the attitude to what is legal and what is illegal. <...> Structure of legal consciousness includes two levels: legal psychology and legal ideology. <...> LAW AND MODERN STATES Право и современные государства Law and modern states 70 4/2015 3/2016 The first element of legal consciousness — legal psychology — corresponds to empirical, common level of legal conscious. <...> The content of the legal psychology is feelings, emotions, moods, habits, stereotypes which are rose in people by the laws in force and the practice of their exercising. <...> It is unsystemised conscious, expressed at some psychological reactions of each person or social <...>