Abstract:
Public/social relations determine the nature of society, ethno-national groups and communities of people, an individual, determine his/her place in the political and legal space, guarantee rights and freedoms. The space of communication forms and ensures the realization of a person’s capabilities, ensuring his/her rights and freedoms, satisfying his/her needs, fulfilling his/her aspirations and hopes, translating ideals into the practice of everyday life. At the same time, special tasks are assigned to legal science as a means and mechanism for regulating public/social relations, legal socialization of a human, ensuring his/her rights and freedoms and, most importantly, his/her formation as a person, a citizen of the country, as a full-fledged representative of civil society. In the scientific literature, the terms “public” and “social” are used both to refer to the same phenomena, events and processes (lack of identification), and various social phenomena. In other cases, the social is identified with the public. As a rule, this takes place in two cases: in the case of comprehending the entirety of phenomena and processes that exist in a particular society, as well as in cases of emphasis on the differences that distinguish social phenomena and processes from natural, technical, technological and informational. This approach, which can be defined as a broad one, understands social relations as economic, political, and ideological phenomena and processes, while public relations are determined as social ones.
