Sentence examples for normative ideas from inspiring English sources

"We don't deal with normative ideas and we don't make nice little buildings.

De La Soul's music was unorthodox not only because it was unconcerned with normative ideas of hip-hop or with the tough-guy persona that was creeping into a genre originally built for dancing and storytelling — De La and Prince Paul opened the field by simply letting the weird in.

Beginning at that time Jason Moran, the pianist from Houston's Third Ward who'd moved to New York in 1993, was getting around all kinds of normative ideas about jazz style and repertory, but he didn't isolate himself from the jazz tradition.

In large ways and small, and now at a suddenly-accelerating pace (today gay marriage, tomorrow marijuana legalization, etc)., we're getting the culture that social liberalism wants — less traditionally religious and more socially permissive, with fewer normative ideas about how sex and love and childbearing fit together.

Again, normative ideas about the privacy of the family seem to result in a focus on the individual (i.e., children) rather than the family.

Results demonstrate that students using the Frame lab made progress developing molecular-level explanations of gas behavior and refining alternative and partial ideas into normative ideas about gases.

So in the end her view on this matter converges with the normative idea already described.] Given an understanding of the normativity of judgments of taste — which we might or might not express in terms of aesthetic truth — we can and should add some more sophisticated normative features, which are also important.

If we deploy the notion of truth, we can express the normative idea by saying if a judgment is true then its opposite is false.

But, as noted earlier, it is best to be careful not to confuse the general normative idea of rationality with computational power and the possession of budgets, in time and energy, to make the most of it.

Accordingly, the notion of immigrant integration is highly contested, and is often used as a normative idea instead of an empirical concept (see Bauböck, 2006).1 The best expressed are these normative expectations in assimilation and multiculturalism as two opposing modes of integration.

The Summit is the work of the Healthy Masculinity Action Project (HMAP), an ambitious initiative devoted to starting a national conversation about how masculinity is defined and to challenge the normative idea that being violent is essential to being a man.