Normative
adjective
Relating to rules, or making people follow them.
The normative function of the legal system is to maintain social order.
Often appears as...
- normative rules
- normative theory
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Describing how things should be or people should behave, not how they are.
Normative assumptions regarding gender have a significant impact on workplace politics.
Often appears as...
- normative assumptions
- normative expectations
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Based on what is considered to be the usual or correct way of doing something.
The study examines the normative social influence on teenagers in the digital age.
Often appears as...
- normative social influence
- normative structure
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Relating to rules, or making people follow them.
The normative function of the legal system is to maintain social order.
Often appears as...
- normative rules
- normative theory
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Describing how things should be or people should behave, not how they are.
Normative assumptions regarding gender have a significant impact on workplace politics.
Often appears as...
- normative assumptions
- normative expectations
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Based on what is considered to be the usual or correct way of doing something.
The study examines the normative social influence on teenagers in the digital age.
Often appears as...
- normative social influence
- normative structure
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Law and Order
Normative relates to enforcing rules that keep society running smoothly.
The normative powers of the police help prevent chaos on the streets.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Followed
Even if something is normative, it doesn't mean everyone will follow it.
Despite the normative guideline, some drivers still speed.
Pro Tip 1/2Law and Order
Normative relates to enforcing rules that keep society running smoothly.
The normative powers of the police help prevent chaos on the streets.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Followed
Even if something is normative, it doesn't mean everyone will follow it.
Despite the normative guideline, some drivers still speed.
Pro Tip 1/2Law and Order
Normative relates to enforcing rules that keep society running smoothly.
The normative powers of the police help prevent chaos on the streets.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Followed
Even if something is normative, it doesn't mean everyone will follow it.
Despite the normative guideline, some drivers still speed.
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authoritativeconformdirectivegovtmandatorilyprescriptiveregulatorystandardize
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Jeremy Heimans: What new...
has not embraced the power of participation. New power is not inherently positive. In fact, this isn't an normative argument that we're making, there are many good things about new power, but it can produce bad outcomes. More participation, more peer coordination, sometimes distorts outcomes and there are some things,
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The Hidden Power of Sad...
If that's what you think you're experiencing, please, please do go seek help. I'm talking about a different state of mind that we all live in, where the light and the dark move together. And I am saying that right now, our culture is afraid of the dark. And that all this normative sunshine
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Clay Shirky: Institutions...
But when the small group is teenage girls who want to stay anorexic by choice, then we're horrified. What's happened is that the normative goals of the support groups that we're used to, came from the institutions that were framing them, and not from the infrastructure.
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The quest for the...
but how do we, as a world, pool our best science, our best resources, our best ways of working, our best manufacturing, our best clinical trials, to move this forward as fast as possible? The WHO is a global organization whose job is this normative function,
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7 principles for...
preserving the important ecological features. And then those other streets in there are auto-free streets. So instead of bulldozing, leveling the site and building right up to the river, this green edge was something that really wasn't normative in China
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The gender-fluid history...
And while the babaylan was a female role, there were also, in fact, male practitioners in the spiritual realm. Reports from early Spanish chroniclers contain several references to male shamans who did not conform to normative Western masculine standards.
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Mysterious, Ancient...
normative religion and so it was at the very moment that these texts were being standardized and codified they're made from animal skin also called parchment and it can be the animal skins that were used were varied either goat sheep or
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Playing with space and...
and also to collectivity, without polarizing the two into two different opposites? Of course the political agendas in the world has been very obsessed, polarizing the two against each other into different, very normative ideas.
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Norman Spack: How I help...
in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to act in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show
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How to make hard choices...
that we get to exercise our normative power -- the power to create reasons for yourself, to make yourself into the kind of person for whom country living is preferable to the urban life.
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Jeremy Heimans: What new...
has not embraced the power of participation. New power is not inherently positive. In fact, this isn't an normative argument that we're making, there are many good things about new power, but it can produce bad outcomes. More participation, more peer coordination, sometimes distorts outcomes and there are some things,
Video examples
The Hidden Power of Sad...
If that's what you think you're experiencing, please, please do go seek help. I'm talking about a different state of mind that we all live in, where the light and the dark move together. And I am saying that right now, our culture is afraid of the dark. And that all this normative sunshine
Video examples
Clay Shirky: Institutions...
But when the small group is teenage girls who want to stay anorexic by choice, then we're horrified. What's happened is that the normative goals of the support groups that we're used to, came from the institutions that were framing them, and not from the infrastructure.
Video examples
The quest for the...
but how do we, as a world, pool our best science, our best resources, our best ways of working, our best manufacturing, our best clinical trials, to move this forward as fast as possible? The WHO is a global organization whose job is this normative function,
Video examples
7 principles for...
preserving the important ecological features. And then those other streets in there are auto-free streets. So instead of bulldozing, leveling the site and building right up to the river, this green edge was something that really wasn't normative in China
Video examples
The gender-fluid history...
And while the babaylan was a female role, there were also, in fact, male practitioners in the spiritual realm. Reports from early Spanish chroniclers contain several references to male shamans who did not conform to normative Western masculine standards.
Video examples
Mysterious, Ancient...
normative religion and so it was at the very moment that these texts were being standardized and codified they're made from animal skin also called parchment and it can be the animal skins that were used were varied either goat sheep or
Video examples
Playing with space and...
and also to collectivity, without polarizing the two into two different opposites? Of course the political agendas in the world has been very obsessed, polarizing the two against each other into different, very normative ideas.
Video examples
Norman Spack: How I help...
in the first decade of life, but it can be very confusing for parents, because it is quite normative for children to act in a cross-gender play and way, and, in fact, there are studies that show
Video examples
How to make hard choices...
that we get to exercise our normative power -- the power to create reasons for yourself, to make yourself into the kind of person for whom country living is preferable to the urban life.
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Benjamin Wittes
American Journalist
The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
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Michel Foucault
French Historian
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
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David Novak
American Theologian
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.
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Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.
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Bernard Werber
French Writer
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.
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Andrew Solomon
Writer
People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to me, is like asking which chopstick is the fork. This pressure on us to embody normative traditions can be paralysing.
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Lawrence Kohlberg
American Educator
The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement.
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Andrew Breitbart
American Businessman
The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants represent something close to what used to be considered normative in this country.
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Dennis Prager
American Journalist
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
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Jonathan Sacks
British Clergyman
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
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Benjamin Wittes
American Journalist
The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
Quote examples
Michel Foucault
French Historian
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
Quote examples
David Novak
American Theologian
All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.
Quote examples
Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.
Quote examples
Bernard Werber
French Writer
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.
Quote examples
Andrew Solomon
Writer
People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to me, is like asking which chopstick is the fork. This pressure on us to embody normative traditions can be paralysing.
Quote examples
Lawrence Kohlberg
American Educator
The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of sequential stage movement.
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Andrew Breitbart
American Businessman
The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants represent something close to what used to be considered normative in this country.
Quote examples
Dennis Prager
American Journalist
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
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Jonathan Sacks
British Clergyman
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
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