LAW AND IDEOLOGY: THE ESSENTIAL UNITY

Abstract

. The article is devoted to the study of legal ideology as a separate legal category and values of modern society through the understanding of the categories “law” and “ideology”, their interrelation in society. The purpose of the article is to determine the essential unity of these categories and issues related to the organization of the ideological and legal sphere of modern society. Research methods . The research is based on general scientific and special methods of scientific cognition. Results . It is substantiated that the ideology of the society of the XXI century is filled with the values reflected through the system of legal ideas, and law acquires growing ideological content. The mechanism for the implementation of modern ideology is closely connected with law, and such connection is caused by legal, democratic character of modern statehood the basis of which is the political and legal system grounded on compromise, the contract, and consensus. In addition, there is an increasing role of legal discourse in the ideological sphere of society, which solves the problems of legitimacy of state power and the existing socio-political order, and therefore, legal ideology becomes more important in the ideological sphere of modern society. The article provides the division of types of ideology, as follows: metaphysical type, dialectical type, and modern type of ideology. The author conducts the analysis of the functioning of law as a general measure of interconnection of all social phenomena, which regulates relations at all social levels: multinational, intergovernmental, local, and all spheres of social life: legal, economic, social-political, spiritual, family etc., and ideology, which a product of the spiritual life of people and subjected to the influence of law. The impact of law on legal ideology, which contain objective and subjective conditions, is characterized. Conclusions . It is proved that law functions as a general measure of the interaction of all social phenomena; it regulates relations at all levels of the social system (interstate, domestic, local), as well as in all spheres of public life (legal, economic, socio-political, spiritual, family, etc.). Ideology, as a product of people’s spiritual life, cannot but feel the influence of law. The essential unity of law and ideology lies in the set of ideological ideas in a certain period of time, which are necessarily expressed in law and always take the form of law.