normative

[ UK /nˈɔːmətˌɪv/ ]
[ US /ˈnɔɹmətɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. pertaining to giving directives or rules
    prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage
  2. relating to or dealing with norms
    normative discipline
    normative samples
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How To Use normative In A Sentence

  • Individuals are expected to act on behalf of the collective whole, and the corporate body is expected to act in the normative interests of its members.
  • “Jill, someone who is cisgendered has an interpersonal sense or understanding of their gender and genitals that match or correspond (or what some might argue a “normative” state).” Third-Gendering « Bound, Not Gagged
  • May I, once again, register my extreme irritation at the term "heteronormative"? Archive 2006-11-01
  • There is a tension between the interior of the characters and their normative lives.
  • In this way, unproductive life - life before and after work or rather life in excess of work - is recaptured in the reproductive margins of the normative household, redelivered in other words to the ends of proper social production and the reproduction of the time of labour. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
  • Normative sexual behaviour in our society remains heterosexual.
  • When women give up their souls to the ultimate colonization known as heteronormative existence, they lose their shot at greatness. Women's Space
  • No matter how interesting normative questions can be, we will stay away from them because our models offer no help in answering these questions. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
  • He is talking about the specific example of gay identity in relation to the heteronormative structures of power.
  • Of course, the mystery for people looking for Kantian normative bindingness is how autonomous motivation would look any different. The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within (the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex)
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