Their dramatic early years began with conception under non-normative circumstances.
Freedman and Kruk [ 109] posit that individual actions in violation of patients' rights occur at the convergence of complex personal, normative and systemic circumstances.
Distinguishing between whether a group has the right to secede (to repudiate the state's jurisdiction and attempt to establish its own state) and whether it has the right to recognition as a legitimate state enables the international legal system to impose normative conditions on recognition in circumstances in which new states have strong incentives to satisfy them.
If we have to care about what our ideal advisor would want us to do in order to be coherent, or perhaps in order to be self-governing agents in the first place, then the reactions of a suitable subject in suitable circumstances will be normative for us, regardless of our contingent desires and interests.
The program was informed by the understanding that behavior change is a function of beliefs, attitudes, and intentions - that are influenced by external factors, such as perceptions about the social normative practices of peers, socioeconomic circumstances, and the broader health care system.
According to the TCA, fertility behavior is the result of an interaction between a unique set of social circumstances (e.g., normative expectations and structural factors) and schemas, which are mental structures that the human brain uses to represent the surrounding world and to process information.
What I am concerned to point up in the present circumstance is the normative form of the judgment.
Norm: population based normative values.
So, for instance, the prohibition on paternalism does not extend to children with immature deliberative faculties or to adults with very limited normative competence, whether due to congenital defects or social circumstance.
If we understand these facts about ourselves, we can more effectively pursue and realize normative goals such as non-violence or fairness by avoiding circumstances that lead to cruelty, or by watching for and correcting distorting influences on our judgment (Glover 2000; Appiah 2008, 49, 71 72, 110 11, 124).
