Sociocultural analysis of law

Efficient legal regulation in the field of civil legal relations call for, among sociological and practical aspects studies, appliance of sociocultural method, which reveals «predisposition» of cultural type of society. Carrying out of any legal transformation should be implemented only with a clear understanding of sociocultural peculiarities of the national legal system. Failures or uncertainty with civilizational identity of Russia, for example, lead to negative consequences. The sociocultural method allows to determine the causes why many civil procedural institutions, made «on paper» or which are efficient in other countries, remain inactive on practice. In order to improve judicial instruments, the definitions of concepts as culture, civilization, attitude of mind is of agreat significance for legal science development. There are two sociocultural types in contemporary comparative legal studies. Notwithstanding globalization and rapprochement of legal systems and cultures of the East and the West, there is a search of a happy middle ground in law between regulations based on individualism and collectivism. Legal culture as a part of sociocultural type of society, affects legislation via legal consciousness and legal practice. The sociocultural type of society is a background of legal system development.