The phrase "adopting a normative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing the acceptance or implementation of a standard or norm within a particular framework or system.
Example: "The organization is focused on adopting a normative approach to ensure consistency in its policies and practices."
Alternatives: "embracing a standard" or "implementing a norm".
Susan Wolf adopts a normative competence view in which the capacity that is essential for autonomy is the capacity to track objective moral reasons.
This paper adopts a normative approach to develop a dynamic form of corporate reporting designed to deal with the threat posed by mass extinction of species.
In this investigation, we have adopted a normative perspective, asking how the different variables arising in a complex neuronal model should interact in shaping the plasticity response - striving for maximal mathematical transparency and not for maximal biological realism.
To adopt a normative commitment, so the argument goes, is to 'subordinate oneself in the name of an external code, truth, authority or goal' (Rose, 1999b: 283); it is to become unwittingly 'hard-wired' to a political perspective (Rose, O'Malley and Valverde, 2006: 101).
Makes deliberate choices between adopting a more normative (strategy-level) or a more procedural (R&D-level) approach to responsible innovation.
Process-responsive innovation: Makes deliberate choices between adopting a more normative (strategy-level) or a more procedural (R&D-level) approach to responsible innovation.
Gerald Geison hinted as much in 1978, when he claimed that adopting an 'explicitly normative stance' ran the risk of doing 'major violence to historical sensibilities'.
In other words, attempting to exercise normative competence (that is, to promote autonomy) relative to the prevailing norms entails adopting a set of norms that is oppressive to oneself.
Such tensions reveal the importance of critically engaging with, rather than adopting a procedural approach to, normative issues to ensure that public policy seeks as far as possible to promote fundamental convictions of society.
MacCormick argues that there are compelling normative arguments in favor of adopting a positivist conception of law.
