This article is about the conception of civic consciousness and political culture. From one hand these conceptions are similar from the point of view of knowledge, qualities, positions, values and actions. The author analyses the conception of political culture and compares the methods of approach to the meaning of this conception. On the other hand the conception of civic consciousness has changed. Nowadays the civic consciousness means the integrant quality, which helps a person to feel himself legally, socially, morally and politically capable of functioning. Thus the conception of the civic consciousness includes the moral qualities.