“大众法律文化”概念分析——兼论大众法律文化在当下中国的兴起

Conceptual Analysis on “Mass Legal Culture”——A Discussion on Rise of Mass Legal Culture in Modern China

大众法律文化属于大众文化的组成部分,其具有外部性、产业性、商业性与娱乐性等大众文化的一般特征。大众法律文化与主导性法律文化、精英法律文化、民间法律文化相互区别,共同构成法律文化的组成部分。在社会转型、法律全球化、法律现代化的共同作用下,大众法律文化已然在当下中国兴起。应承认大众法律文化对于中国法律实践的影响力及积极意义,重视大众法律文化传播对于"社会稳定"的作用,同时,应将大众法律文化看作一个"斗争的场所"。

Mass legal culture belongs to a part of mass popular culture with general features mass popular culture such as externality,industry,commercialism and entertainment.Different from the dominant legal culture,elite legal culture and folk legal culture,mass legal culture constitutes the basic part of legal culture together with those mentioned above.Under the common action of social transformation,law globalization and modernization,mass legal culture has already been come into being.It is necessary to admit that mass legal culture has positive influence and significance upon legal practice in China and attention should be paid to the stabilizing role that mass legal culture plays,in the meanwhile,mass legal culture should be regarded as'the front battlefield'.