The phrase "normative assumptions" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when discussing assumptions or beliefs that are held in a given society or culture. For example, "In our society, there are many normative assumptions about the roles of men and women in the family."
What are the underlying normative assumptions being made?
However, disputed normative assumptions are often "hidden" in policy-relevant scientific findings anyway (Biewald et al., 2015).
Some experts might advocate strong opinions on particular policy issues, but doing so relies upon contestable normative assumptions.
It will also depend on academics recognising and challenging the normative assumptions about who students are and not relying on a singular interpretation of the "university experience".
They argue that these are inevitably normative assumptions, and they go on to sketch out their own particular framework for understanding the two categories and their interrelationship.
In doing so, it decenters normative assumptions about media and media theory while introducing students to a range of media practices past and present.
This external capacity building presupposes an integration (but not necessarily reconciling) and synthesis of knowledge across different disciplines and knowledge systems, and requires transparency of key uncertainties and normative assumptions.
The explicit discussion of some divergent viewpoints and normative assumptions in the recent IPCC Working Group III assessment of climate change mitigation options is a good example in this regard.
However, research on marginalized groups raises ethical challenges from normative assumptions underlying analysis, because models are drawn from the cultural context where marginalization itself is created and recreated.
The framework facilitates a structured discussion on climate metrics since it reveals normative assumptions and simplifications that are implicit to the choice of a climate metric.
In this paper, we examine the theoretical and normative assumptions that rest beneath the proposed turn towards discourse-based methods, and identify procedures for testing their application in the field.
