The structure of professional attorney’s consciousness

A.D Turyanskіy,O.A Hulbs,O.V Kobets,V.V Ponomarenko

doi:10.33531/farplss.2018.3.27

Abstract

The problem of studying consciousness has been quite relevant and significant throughout the lifetime of psychology, since it is the consciousness that builds the inner picture of the world and forms a semantic representation of reality, performing the reflective, regulatory and instrumental functions of the human psyche. Consciousness arises and forms in the process of regulation of social activity and allows a person to set himself a certain goal, to isolate himself from the outside world, to determine his attitude to the objects and phenomena of the outside world. The objective necessity of successful socio-economic development of the Ukrainian society, the task of formation of the state of law, implementation of a complex of measures related to the implementation of legal reform lead to an increase in the role of professional attorney, their responsibility for the results of their activities. The professional consciousness of attorney is a special phenomenon of modern reality, the study of which is possible only with a thorough analysis of it as a theoretical and legal construction. Proceeding from the approaches developed in psychological science, in some cases, this kind of consciousness can be regarded as a set of views, ideas, theories, representations and feelings of a group of people with a certain status of a attorney, with respect to the law, current and desirable. In others - as a "reflection of legal reality" by attorney in the process of carrying out their professional activities. Features of the content of professional consciousness of attorney should be analyzed, based on the following elements: professional knowledge, attitude to the profession, skills of professional behavior

Highlights

The problem of studying consciousness has been quite relevant and significant throughout the lifetime of psychology, since it is the consciousness that builds the inner picture of the world and forms a semantic representation of reality, performing the reflective, regulatory and instrumental functions of the human psyche
Professional consciousness is the most advanced form of consciousness of attorney. It is a form of specialized consciousness that reflects the specifics of the socio-legal reality with which attorney deal in the process of carrying out their professional activities
System analysis of the structure of professional consciousness of attorney proves that this is a multilevel hierarchical entity, in which consciousness is a component of the higher socio-psychological level of organization of professional activity and behavior of the personality of a human rights activist

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O.A., Kobets, O.V., Ponomarenko, V.V., Turyanskіy, A.D. (2018). The structure of professional attorney’s consciousness. Consideration of the current law (due to the peculiarities of professional activity functions of professional consciousness must be carried out or for other reasons) Such knowledge, as already noted, is according to the following distribution: cognitive unsystematic and is related to one or another legal situation. As the main functions of forming the professional (informational) is aimed at obtaining certain professional consciousness of attorney can distinguish epistemological, knowledge, including information about the current law-making, regulatory, legal-law functions These functions legislation, the practice of its implementation. With the help of the depth of knowledge of nature and society, measures of of regulatory function, a certain mechanism for regulating practical human activity It is associated with a specific behavior or actions is made, taking into account legal character, degree of reflection of the surrounding reality, as well as with the features of the social function. Baranov (1988), professional consciousness is a complex system of education, which contains various elements that form its structure, and consideration of which is important in connection with the changes that have experienced the current professional activity of attorney (Fig. 1)

STRUCTURE OF PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY OF THE ADVOCATE

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