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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
normative
adjective
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▪ An ideology is simply the elevation of a particular set of perceptions, assumptions, and analyses to a normative belief system.
▪ Christians may hold very different positions as to how far it is normative.
▪ It need not, therefore, be related to any act performed in the belief that it has normative consequences.
▪ Moreover, that history and that revelation to which Christians necessarily make reference are in some sense normative for the religion.
▪ Of themselves, of course, the rules are normative, and their validity is thus unaffected by issues of fact.
▪ Political theory is the source of many of the normative knowledge claims produced by political scientists.
▪ The position that you select is an element of your normative political knowledge-your value judgments.
▪ While Aristotle's scheme is founded on normative grounds, Finer's scheme is derived empirically.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
normative

normative \normative\ adj.

  1. relating to or dealing with norms; as, normative discipline; normative samples.

  2. (Grammar) giving directives or rules; prescriptive. Opposed to descriptive.

    Syn: prescriptive.

  3. based on or prescribing a norm or standard; as, normative grammar.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
normative

1880, perhaps from French normatif, from Latin norma "rule" (see normal).

Wiktionary
normative

a. 1 Of or pertaining to a norm or standard. 2 Conforming to a norm or norms. 3 Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.

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WordNet
normative

  1. adj. relating to or dealing with norms; "normative discipline"; "normative samples"

  2. giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" [syn: prescriptive] [ant: descriptive]

  3. based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar" [syn: prescriptive]

  4. dealing with or based on norms; "a normative judgment"

Wikipedia
Normative

Normative means relating to an ideal standard or model, or being based on what is considered to be the normal or correct way of doing something.

Normative has specialized meanings in different academic disciplines such as philosophy, social sciences, and law.

Normative (disambiguation)

Normative in academic disciplines means relating to an ideal standard or model, and in particular a normative statement (or norm see below) is a statement that affirms how things should or ought to be, that is how to value them.

Normative disciplines include:

  • Normative economics, a branch of economics that incorporates value judgments
  • Normative jurisprudence, a branch of legal theory,

and in philosophy, see

  • Normative ethics, a branch of philosophical ethics concerned with morality, and
  • Norm (philosophy)

Normative may also refer to:

  • Normative assessment, in education, a type of test or evaluation
  • Normative mineralogy, a geochemical mineralogy calculation
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Usage examples of "normative".

Peabody, back at Yale, with the cream-colored walls and the polished dark-wood trim, and of the arguments among the graduate students sitting around the long table: whether processual archaeology was primarily historical or primarily archaeological, whether formalist criteria outweighed objectivist criteria, whether derivationist doctrine concealed normative commitment.

The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.

The twitchers, who were victims of paralogical reprogramming, stay in one part of the camp, and the mods, those with functional normative modifications, stay in another.

Judgments about these matters are intimately related to the type of judgment that I have just called prescriptive or normative.

I wish to engage in normative heterosex during this, my relaxative period.

Within a more strongly differentiated temporal horizon, myth is distantiated to a tradition that stands out from the normative reality of society and from a partially objectivated nature.