公民意识,是关于公民在国家和法律中的地位,公民与国家、集体、他人的相互关系,以及公民依法享受权利和承担义务的性质、范围及其关系等问题的看法、思想和观念的总称。它是以公民为其认识对象的一种特殊形式的社会意识。公民意识既具有其历史性和具体性,又具有一般的共同特征。公民意识的历史性和具体性,首先表现在它总是与生产发展的一定历史阶段相联系的,是由当时社会的物质生产关系和阶级关系所决定的。不同的社会历史阶段的公民意识具有不同的内容;同一社会历史阶段的公民意识, Civic awareness is a general term for the opinions, ideas and concepts of citizens on issues such as the status of citizens in the state and the law, the relationship between citizens and the state, the collective and others as well as the nature, scope and relationship of citizens’ rights and obligations under law . It is a special form of social awareness based on citizens’ cognition. Civic awareness has both its historical and specific characteristics, but also has the common features. The historical and specific nature of civic awareness first manifests itself in the fact that it is always linked to a certain historic stage in the development of production and is determined by the material relations of production and class relations in the society at that time. Civic awareness in different stages of social history has different contents; civic awareness in the same social historical stage,