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Vytautas Kurpuvesas

Abstract

The article deals with the concept of social technologies and their interaction with law. The objective of the research is to determine the possibility of using social technologies in the activity of legal institutions.
The article assesses social technologies as intellectual and science receptive resource, the use of which allows not only to study and predict various social changes but also to exert influence on practical life and receive an effective predictable social result. Under conditions of dynamic social changes the innovative method of cognizance, i. e. its technologisation, is becoming more and more enforced in the governing practice worldwide.
According to the world experience, social technologies (global, informative, educational, political and others) make it possible to solve social conflicts, relieve social tension, prevent catastrophes, and to take optimal governing decisions.
The essence of social technologies can be understood as a system of innovative methods by means of which it is possible to elucidate and use unknown potentials of social systems, and social benefits are obtained by the least input.
The possibilities of using social technologies in the field of public and legal life are unlimited. On the other hand, they have not been used properly. Fairly frequently one can notice a great lag and occasionally contradictions between the level of enormous scientific, cultural, educational and intellectual potential and social technological cognizance in various spheres of public life (including the increase of effectiveness of enforcement of justice).
The interaction of legal and social technologies is dealt with in three aspects. First of all, law is regarded as social technology. Second, social technologies might and in certain cases should be assessed as the object of legal control. Third, law can be considered as the object of the effect of social technologies.
When analyzing the possibility of using social technologies in the activity of legal institutions, emphasis is laid on the technologies of public relations, information technologies, and search is made for new nontraditional ways of solving the problems of administrative justice.

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