In accounting for health and wellbeing implications, participants implied and, at times, actively drew on, a number of normative assumptions about how social attributes such as age and gender affected their own and others' mobility, safety and risk in public spaces after dark.
It was, therefore, necessary to draw on more than one ethical theory to deal adequately with the multifaceted phenomenon of decision-making in advanced cancer from a normative perspective.
Within these limitations we conclude that approaches using deliberative discussion and drawing on shared information, normative reflection and an exploration of the potential for difference can importantly enrich ethical debates on good practice.
Instead, we drew on different normative backgrounds (partly in combination), depending on the purposes of each stage in the ETHICO project.
Drawing on relationalism as a theoretical lens, we examine how normative organising structures, rights and authority relationships influence the cultivation of strategic foresight among organisational members lower down the organisational hierarchy.
Drawing on the experience of the United States — where this risk management approach has been entrenched — we query the normative basis of this shift in law and policy and point to some potential pitfalls.
Researchers, drawing on social identity theory [ 20] and self-categorization theory perspectives [ 21] have advocated for a re-conceptualization of the normative component in the TPB to consider the influence of the expectations and actions of a specific, salient, reference group (i.e., group norms) on intentions and behaviour [ 19, 22].
Drawing on a range of interviews with key stakeholders and an analysis of secondary materials, we find evidence of numerous forms of institutional work including theorizing, rhetorical appeals, mythologizing, constructing normative networks and educating.
Besides biobanks drawing on reified notions of common history and national identity (Schwartz-Marin and Silva-Zolezzi 2010), they can also be seen as contributing to normative assumptions on the opinions of the people who participate in them, or more specifically the people who are surveyed and interviewed for their opinions on them.
