p As an intellectual side of the historical process, social consciousness is not a sum total of individual outlooks but an intellectual entity possessing an inner structure comprising various levels and 142 historically conditioned forms. The following factors comprising the structure of the social consciousness may be singled out:

p 1) different levels: social psychology and ideology ;

p 2) individual consciousness and social consciousness ;

3) chief forms of the social consciousness: politics, law, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy, and religion.