The Empirical Analysis About The Public’s Legal Awareness

Legal consciousness is one kind of social consciousness, which is restricted by living conditions and in a state of development, as the popularity of Internet and the awareness of citizens’participation, the research of development of our country citizens’legal consciousness has become one complex and hard task.Because legal consciousness was affected by different entity’self-interest, intellectual level, different regional living standard, and social psychological level. Therefore, the difference of affecting factor will lead to the one same entity has different opinion even has some conflict views. This one of the reason that the appearance of diversity of legal consciousness. This thesis try to analyze our country’s citizens’present situation by the legal matter of Wu Ying and Yao Jiaxin specimen of Internet age’ legal matters.About the research result of the two cases mostly converge in Internet and media.About the case of Wu Ying, the most academic represent, the case of Wu Ying and Yao Jiaxin can regard as a specimen of the legal age, with the theme of discussion of Wu Ying death and life social environment in the country,which is hosted by China university of political science and law’s public decision-making research.Except those elite scholars and there is a heat provoked by net citizens, who express their opinions and views from the aspect of economy, finance, social morality. This paper starts from positivism, analysis different entity’s diversity opinions about the two cases, attempting to present public’s law awareness and analyze the reason why this phenomenon formed and give a glimpse to the developed degree of public law awareness.This paper mainly divided three parts, the first part brings up relevant concept and theory of legal awareness, and clarify the concept and structure of legal awareness. The second part of the paper is to clarify the legal awareness present situation, to analyze why public hold different legal recognition towards to the two cases from empirical and legal theory aspects, concluding that the ordinary citizens’legal awareness, was restricted by region, educational level, intellectual level, moral emotion. Comparing the legal consciousness present situation common people and scholars, we can draw the conclusion that legal consciousness present situation of the scholars by contrast, finding the difference and similarity. The difference between common people and scholars is mainly at views, way of thinking, cognitive level, but the similarity is pursuing the fairness of law and justice. Part three is to find the factors that obstruct common people’s legal consciousness’ development.This paper argues that, legal consciousness is recognition and understand about people towards legal concepts and legal operation, awareness to public matters, the phase of people’ legal consciousness, the difference of common people and intellectual walks and the reasons are the major problems that thin paper is gonging to discuss. This paper mainly adopt the method of statistical investigation of sociology, the integrated use of statistics and generalization. This paper describes and analyze the comparison between network public opinions and the social public and scholar’ opinions about the case of Wu Ying and Yao Jiaxin, to show completely and objectively the legal consciousness present situation, and find the factors,which affect public legal consciousness.This paper uses statistical method, which has the character of clarity and accuracy to increase the objectivity and scientific nature of the process and conclusion.