The relevance of the research is due to the need to study the views of modern Western scientists on legal culture in the context of increasing civilizational and socio-cultural contradictions. These socio-philosophical and legal-theoretical concepts have not been the subject of scientific research in our country, which determines the novelty of the work, the main research problem of which is the need to study socio-philosophical and legal-theoretical views on the phenomenon of legal culture. The purpose of the research is to analyze the views of prominent cultural theorists and social philosophers of the West (L. Friedman, M. Damask, etc.). It is specified in solving the following tasks: 1) to consider the variety of interpretations of legal culture; 2) to consider the understanding of the impact of legal culture on the work of legal and political systems. The methodology of this research includes the method of historical parallels as a modification of the socio-philosophical method of analogies, the comparat