Sentence examples for external norm from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kepel answered, "Secularism is barely present in daily experience, and it's barely perceived any longer as a means of emancipation, but rather as an external norm". 1 2 Next Page ».

Our study indicates that the planned readmission status considerably improves the PPRs rating in Belgium, not only inside a single hospital, but also when compared to an external norm.

And if it results in exceptional achievement (as defined by external norms such as power, status and wealth) does that have to go hand in hand with being a troubled, agonised person?

Where do these external norms originate?

Do these external norms reflect a private political agenda or do they reflect a larger social structure?

The major explanatory variables include external norms, time trend and media attention; and internal levels, previous pollution control and previous CSR performance.

According to the standard view, all that rational choice theory demands is that people's preferences are (internally) consistent; it has no business in telling people what they ought to prefer, whether their preferences are consistent with external norms or values.

On the one hand, there are some reasons to believe that rational choice theory (which is at work not only in economics but also in political science and other social sciences) cannot be applied to empirical phenomena without referring to external norms or values (Sen 1993; Reiss 2013).

Finally, in regard to ethics, Locke offers a perfectly Gassendist linkage between good and evil on the one hand and pleasure and pain on the other, and like Gassendi celebrates the notion of personal autonomy, though he locates the seat of moral judgment in external norms (most prominently, the natural law) rather than any internal ideals or virtues such as Gassendi upholds.

Food, physical activity and self-monitoring prescriptions are external norms the meaning is unclear for patients.

Pay-for-performance contracts may require information about current performance in relation to external norms or past performance, depending on the type of incentives used [ 26].