Sentence examples for normative meaning from inspiring English sources
Kelsen's answer to this question is surprisingly simple: an act or an event gains its legal-normative meaning by another legal norm that confers this normative meaning on it.
Contradictions appeared between Henrekson's ideological stance adhering to liberal individualism, and the implied, normative meaning of gender.
Each term has a normative and a transgressive meaning, and the Introduction explores how and when the normative meaning of one term is in play, the transgressive meaning of the other term likewise emerges.
Thus, to get an "ought" type of conclusion from a set of "is" premises, one must point to some "ought" premise in the background, an "ought" that confers the normative meaning on the relevant type of "is".
On the one hand, "standard of care" might refer to what healthcare providers ought to do, given the best available evidence (the normative meaning); on the other hand, it might refer to what healthcare providers in fact do in clinical practice (the descriptive meaning).
Even more usefully, empathy is normative, meaning we don't just have to focus on the extreme negative end of human behavior.
Professionals referred to normative meanings four times more often than the public.
Caucasia interrogates, displaces, and transforms the normative meanings of whiteness, and by extension, Americanness.
Legitimacy refers to the process of deepening crystallisation of how things should be done, the development of causal imaginaries, emergence of different bodies of knowledge, and ultimately, the creation of a symbolic universe, with beliefs and practices imbued with normative meanings.
Because focus groups aim at discourse including collective orientations and normative meanings, the data gathered are not appropriate for assessing MHPs "real" practices in managing reproductive issues.
Its reality, or objectivity, resides in the sphere of meaning; we attach a legal-normative meaning to certain actions and events in the world (PT1, 10).
