Community participants offered more critical and normative perspectives on biogas-related processes/matters (from community dynamics to matters of training and maintenance and relations with construction companies and authorities) than participants from the domestic biogas context.
We have stuck to a long-standing agenda which is to always insist on the best of critical and normative thinking, on the European end of things, and on the strengths of conceptual analysis and pragmatism, but also transcendentalism and moral perfectionism, on the Anglo-American side of things.
If this were the case, activity in this region may relate to why unanimous opinions are critical for normative influence (i.e., compliance, influenced to gain social approval without changes in private beliefs) [ 51, 52].
We are concerned that the call for post-ELSI shift will exclude imaginative proposals and intellectual freedom by narrowing down the scope and methodologies of ELSI and thereby missing opportunities to play a critical and constructive normative role.
'That's a picture of Notary Sojac' is an interpretative statement, as are 'That's a picture of a unicorn,' 'The passage refers to Brutus's betrayal of Caesar,' and 'The thesis of Macbeth is exceedingly simple: Thou shalt not kill.' Last, critical evaluations are normative judgments that basically say that a work of art is good or bad, or how good or bad it is.
They were critical of a normative understanding of how people should live their life based on health.
He calls for a shift in the normative and critical emphasis of critical theory from the narrow concern with rules and procedures of Jürgen Habermas's model to a change-enabling disclosure of possibility and the enlargement of meaning.
Among the approaches to entrepreneurship, three are relevant to this study, namely the normative, the critical and the realistic.
While domestic participants were unanimously satisfied with the training received, community participants were more prone to criticising the limited extent of training, in line with a general tendency, amongst community participants, to express more normative and critical views.
The distinction between descriptive and normative is critical.
