Sentence examples for desirable norm from inspiring English sources

And this conversation may not suit many liberals who are wary of stigmatizing unwed parents or treating marriage as some sort of desirable norm.

Now that Russia and China are again asserting themselves, the Security Council is, on many issues, deadlocked.In this section Schröder's Germany More killing in Kosovo The United Nations regrets Handle with care Worst of friends ReprintsBut deadlock should not be considered the desirable norm, nor should the alternative be automatic deference to the United States.

Participants said that they were honest on the ACASI throughout data collection, but admitted that it was likely that other women may have provided dishonest answers in order to maintain socially desirable norms, protect their privacy, or avoid fear or embarrassment with disclosure.

There is some argument that EI is socially constructed and self-report measures would reflect self-representation according to socially desirable norms (particularly relevant in gender) [ 9].

Unlike in Iran, where wearing a head scarf is legally mandated and enforced by special religious police, the Islamist view in most other Muslim countries is that the head scarf is one way of implementing the religious duty to dress modestly — a desirable social norm, not an enforceable legal rule.

Having a number of items with extremely high or low IF values create a skewed distribution so the items were not desirable for norm-referenced purposes.

Significant improvements in alcohol knowledge and affective attitude toward binge drinking were observed for adolescents who participated in GOKA compared to the control group, with maintenance of desirable subjective norms, instrumental attitudes and intentions.

Both are less desirable than the norm (that is, not being threatened at all), but, for the subject of the threat, losing money is more desirable than being killed.

The self-reporting nature of the data collection tools, potentially allowed for social desirability bias, a phenomenon where 'respondents believe there are norms defining desirable attitudes and behaviours, and that they are concerned enough about these norms to distort their answers to avoid presenting themselves in an unfavorable light' (p. 257) (Tourangeau et al. 2000).

The Lorentzian norm has desirable robust error metric properties.

For this and other reasons Marx asserts it will be desirable to discard this norm when a higher phase of communist society is attained.