The phenomenon of the state: structural and functional analysis methodology

• Lyubashits V.Ya.

  Southern Federal University
  Rostov-on-Don. Russia
  Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law Faculty of Law

• Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
  Vladivostok. Russia

• Mamychev A.Yu.

  Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
  Vladivostok. Russia

In this paper, the authors first drew attention to the institution of «functionally-organized state» as a method of knowledge of the content and nature of the state. In this regard, the authors justified functional analysis as one of the priority ways of knowing the state.

Keywords: the state, the methodology of knowledge society, the social system, the essence of the state, the functions of the state.