The role of normativism in the research of legal system

The relevance of studying this problem is due to the fact that there is still pluralism in the understanding of law in legal science. Such uncertainty complicates the students' learning of the foundations of the theory of law, which negatively affects legal practice. Among many concepts that offer their own vision of law, a special place is occupied by the normative understanding of law. The bright representatives of this direction are G. Kelsen, G. Khart and Kh. Bobbio.The study purpose is to reveal the role of normative understanding of law in the study of the legal system of society. We set the following tasks to achieve this purpose: analysis of the features of normative approach to understanding the law; definition of the legal system of society; identification of the normative approach significance in analyzing the legal system composition; study of the normative approach significance in studying the functions of the legal system.The methodology of study is based on the systemic dialectics. At the same time, we involved a variety of general scientific and privately-based methods. The materials specified in this article can be used in the educational activities. They can also be taken into account in legal practice, since they make it possible to better understand and delineate positive law and other legal phenomena