Legal behavior under the technological paradigm change and modern social transformations

Abstract

The article identifies the key areas of change in legal behavior associated with high-tech dynamics of social development. Modern technologies that form a new paradigm and the ongoing social changes, primarily resulting from the pandemic, have been examined from the perspective of modern post-classical methodology. The provisions of constructivism and anthropocentrism were used as the guidelines for modern sociological jurisprudence. Interdisciplinary synthesis combines the achievements of psychology and sociology. The theory of technological paradigms developed by domestic economists as well as an examination of the impact of new technologies on public relations was also employed. Legal behavior has been analyzed as a crucial element of constructing legal reality. The author demonstrates that the subject of law transforms abstract norms into legal relations, that is, into legal reality, through its day-to-day legal actions. It has been explored how legal conduct is being socially conditioned with regard to economic development. It was also examined how new technologies lead to the change of technological paradigm and the corresponding transformation of the accepted models of legal behavior. This study shows the influence of the new digital reality on the psyche of the subject of law, his values, and their correlation with his own everyday legal behavior. It is justified that the space in which legal behavior takes place needs to be expanded in the digital era. In this study, the impact of pandemic restrictions on legal behavior was examined. It was concluded that the restrictions associated with the pandemic entailed changes in the composition and structure of the legal space, which also affected legal behavior. In addition to changing the framework in which social relations are conducted, sociological transformations impact the subjects themselves, affecting their motives and value principles that govern their behavior.