normative
adjective
formal uk
Synonym
prescriptive formal mainly disapproving
See also
heteronormative formal usually disapproving
Meaning of normative in English
Examples of normative
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The second consideration that makes me hesitant to accept the idea that welfare should be seen as a normative concept is purely economical.
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Yet important normative questions have remained about the policies a liberal state should adopt toward religion.
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I state them in terms of the ideal concept of normative economics that welfare economics is supposed to encapsulate.
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In time, this repetitive attribution of a particular symbolic value to certain social actions became assumed as normative.
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But if coherence leads to not treating people as equals, as we argue, then local coherence loses its normative force.
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Finally, the extent of negative consequences of a disorder can vary as a function of normative developmental trajectories.
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I believe that the normative responses to reasoning tasks as well as the systematic deviations from them can be explained within a single reasoning system.
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His defence of sambandham occupies precisely that normative terrain, used in the legal discourse to deny legal sanction to it.
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Their formulation, which is entirely reasonable, is to encourage research in which normative responding is at least possible.
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But science cannot evaluate the normative or values basis for these policy directions.
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The development of the new theory came about in reaction, both normative and scientific, to the anarchy model.
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It soon becomes clear that any attempt to use normative models to describe the individual household is ideologically charged.
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Furthermore, many of the biological processes that have been discussed in this paper as possibly being related to resilience are in fact normative processes.
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Normative statements of the type embodied in at least the first two principles may not, therefore, travel very well.
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The analysis thus shows that economic theory choices are simultaneously policy choices and also normative statements about society.
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