Talk:Legal consciousness

Planned citations

 * Affective legal analysis By Frank Fleerackers, Josef Heinz Müller, Wilfried Burkhardt (at google books) deals with theoretical concept of legal Consciousness  as legal awareness and evaluates role of civic education vis a vis Legal positivism
 * http://www.fd.unl.pt/docentes_docs/ma/amh_MA_9679.pdf

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Mahitgar (talk) 17:43, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

This article fails to explain what it is about
The first six sentences of the article are basically gibberish. I have reproduced them below:

''Legal consciousness is a collection of understood and/or imagined to have understood, legal awareness of ideas, views, feelings and traditions imbibed through legal socialization; which reflects as legal culture among given individual, or a group, or a given society at large. The legal consciousness evaluates the existing law and also bears in mind an image of the desired or ideal law''. ''Consciousness is not an individual trait nor solely ideational; legal consciousness is a type of social practice reflecting and forming social structures. The study of legal Consciousness documents the forms of participation and interpretation through which act or sustain, reproduce, or amend the circulating contested or hegemonic structures of meanings concerning law. Legal consciousness is the way in which law is experienced and interpreted by specific individuals as they engage, avoid, resist or just assume the law and legal meanings. ''Legal consciousness is a state of being, legal socialisation is the process to Legal consciousness; where as legal awareness & legal mobilisation are means to achieve the same.

That is what I read when I first looked at this article on September 18, 2017. The article appears to be about an actual topic of some sociological discussion. While the subject of "legal consciousness" may very well have to do with "...circulating contested or hegemonic structures of meanings concerning law" this article appears to be nonsense - it needs to be either rewritten by someone who is familiar with the subject (and preferably lucid) or the article can just be removed entirely. Qdiderot (talk) 06:50, 18 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Do we even need this article when we have legal awareness? How is this different? It seems to me that the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia just used a different term for legal awareness. If so, then this article should be merged into legal awareness. -- Unloose (talk) 15:37, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I have added some refs that explain "legal consciousness"; the explanations need to be used in the article, which currently woffles. "Legal consciousness" means a form of social consciousness;  "legal awareness" refers to heightening of that consciousness through public access to formally legal knowledge and skills.  "Legal awareness" might eventually be merged into "legal consciousness". Errantios (talk) 14:18, 14 August 2022 (UTC)