Title of the article

Anomie of Society under Imbalanced Constitutional Values

 Authors 

Pavel L. Likhter —  Сandidate of Law, Associate Professor of the Sub-department of Private and Public Law, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026, Russia, lixter@mail.ru

 Category 

PUBLIC-LEGAL (STATE-LEGAL) SCIENCES

Year,.Volume, Number 

2021, Vol. 9, № 4 (36)

 Pages 

90-98

 Article type 

Original article

 Index UDK 

342.41

 DOI 

10.21685/2307-9525-2021-9-4-11

 Abstract 

Background. Legal norms do not always reflect the legal consciousness of citizens, in this case there is a certain disintegration between the demands of the population and the ideals enshrined in the laws of the state. In the conditions of social differentiation, consumption cult and citizens atomization, such anomie entails the need to resolve a number of essential axiological, ethical and legal problems. The major aim of the author is to study the optimal balance of constitutional values at the present stage development of public relations. Materials and methods. The empirical basis of the study is the consti-tutional and legal provisions, law of Russia and foreign states. The tasks are solved using the comparative-legal, formal-legal, theoretical-prognostic methods of cognition. The normative-value method is applied to determine the essence of axiological phenomena, their evaluation with regard to the common good and justice. The sociological method is necessary to clarify the dependence of political and legal institutions on the social struc-ture, economic prerequisites. With the help of the functional method, the dependencies between constitutional and legal phenomena manifested in practices and institutions en-shrined in normative acts are studied. Results. The social and economic prerequisites of the anomie of society and the interdependence of constitutional ideals and legal con-sciousness of citizens are investigated. The problems of the imbalanced legal values in the Russian Federation are revealed. Conclusions. Based on the results of the study, the conclusion is made about the relevance of applying methodological holism in the field of constitutional law in order to scientifically substantiate the priority of the whole over the parts, the common good over the private interests. The analysis of the current situation allows stating the need to re-evaluate some public legal methods of protecting human rights.

 Keywords 

constitutional axiology, anomie of society, constitutional and legal values, common good, legal awareness of the population, imbalanced constitutional values, holism

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Likhter P.L. Anomie of Society under Imbalanced Constitutional Values. Elektronnyy nauchnyy zhurnal "Nauka. Obshchestvo. Gosudarstvo" = Electronic scientific journal "Science. Society. State". 2021;9(4):90–98. (In Russ.). doi:10.21685/2307-9525-2021-9-4-11