Norms of law: to the question of retrospective and modern tendencies of understanding

Abstract

It is noted that it is indisputable that the study of law as a socio-cultural activity has a multi-vector orientation.The scientist is looking for the true, in his opinion, meaning in different spectrums of law as the object of his study.The structural feature of law is so confusing in its elements that the study of a particular phenomenon without ana- lyzing its relationship with other elements is actually doomed to the vulnerability of the correctness or methodologi- cal incompleteness of scientific theory, which tries to deduce the axiom. That is why getting into the lens of scientific research, one or another facet of this complex issue forces the jurist to touch if not the whole range of knowledge about the object, then at least the most key parts of the studied legal phenomenon. In other words, studying, for example, the essence of law in isolation from the characteristics of its rules, the formulation of their features and varieties leads any scholar-lawyer in a scientific impasse.It is noted that today the tendencies of scientific research testify to the growing spread of the idea that the rule of law is provided not only by the coercive force of the state, but also by the public consciousness. Legal doctrine is gradually abandoning the fact that only the state can enforce a legal norm by force, and imperative norms in their number do not prevail over dispositive ones.