Theoretical and applied aspects of understanding the concept “legal orientation” in legal science

The study of theoretical and applied aspects of understanding the concept “legal orientation” in legal science is relevant, of practical interest and requires scientific consideration. Globalization generates radical changes that can lead to both further evolution of humanity and adverse consequences. The search for joint survival and development programs depends on the legal culture that determines the legal orientations of social actors. The purpose of this paper was to figure out the theoretical and applied aspects of understanding the concept “legal orientation” in legal science. This study is based on an interdisciplinary approach and considers the knowledge of various sciences about human behaviour. General scientific and special scientific methods of cognition of social phenomena and processes were used to conduct the study. Among general scientific methods, methods of logical-semantic and terminological analysis, anthropological, system-structural, causal-functional, data analysis, praxeological, and content analysis were used. Experimental methods of observation, conversations, surveys, and questionnaires were used to obtain empirical data. The presented results of the theoretical and applied study of the concept “legal orientation” in legal science allowed figuring out at least four meanings of its use, showed its inextricable connection with the concept “value orientations” – a dynamic system that regulates social behaviour and human activity, and therefore requires constant diagnostics. Based on the diagnosis of the value orientations of the student youth of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, methodical recommendations were developed to form the system of value orientations of a young individual who obtains higher education, which will be consonant with the system of value orientations of Ukraine. The results of this study will be useful for researchers investigating the axiological and praxeological components of human activity in various spheres of social life; for state and public institutions related to the implementation of strategies for the development of civil society and the rule of law, for teachers and lecturers in the education and upbringing of future citizens of Ukraine, as well as for all stakeholders.