- relating to or dealing with norms; "normative discipline"; "normative samples"
- prescriptive: pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage"
- Normative has specialized meanings in several academic disciplines. Generically, it means relating to an ideal standard or model. In practice, it has strong connotations of relating to a typical standard or model (see also normality).
- Of, pertaining to, or using a norm or standard
- (normativity) the state of being normative; the state of being a norm
- (normativity) The privileging of socially constructed norms, against which deviations are classed as abnormal eg. heterosexuality/homosexuality.
- A normative scenario is one that describes a preferred future. (That's the futurists' sense of the word; it has a different meaning in psychological testing, where it refers to comparing individuals.)
- normal; statistically, the results of testing a large body of people
- Required for conformance with the Unicode Standard.
- Applies to a prescriptive part of a standard; as opposed to informative (see above). See also and Normative on Wikipedia.
- Refers to value judgments as to "what ought to be," in contrast to positive which is about "what is."
- Pertaining to the average or expected behavior patterns of a group or community (Barker, 1995)
- concept is evaluative, denoting or implying goodness, desirability, what ought to be, or the negation of these denotations. Compassion, equality, and exploitation are such normative concepts. Clearly, the same concept may be used descriptively or normatively depending on context and intent. ...
- A group that is free from dysfunction compared to a group that has dysfunction. For example, in groups with and without knee osteoarthritis, the group without the osteoarthritis is the normative group.
- Ideal, the way things ought to be. Normative ethics is the study of rightness in action, and goodness in states of affairs. It seeks the TRUTH about ethics. ...
- indicative of how things should or ought to be (as opposed to positive or descriptive).
- Implying or establishing a norm; a normative model is one that describes not just how the world is but also suggests how the world should be.
- Definition 1: having to do with norms, i.e. with shared ideas about what should be done or what something should be like. (This is the usual interpretation of the term in Descriptive Translation Studies. ...
- Normative text (which would be expected to make up the bulk of any specification or user publication) defines the functionality and use of the product under test. Normative text shall be tested. See also non-normative. ...
- Such a view or theory brings in value judgements and suggests how things should be rather than just explaining how they are and why.
- Normative statements are those statements where you are expressing an opinion. These include statements that have such terms as “should” in them, where you state that the world would be better in certain circumstances, or where you express a moral, ethical, or religious opinion.
- applies to action in everyday life.