Sentence examples for normative patterns from inspiring English sources

These relationships are based not only on family and community affiliations but also on individual life experiences, so that individuals and families often develop idiosyncratic religiosities while remaining well within the range of normative patterns.

For Merton and others, social structure consists not only of normative patterns but also of the inequalities of power, status, and material privileges, which give the members of a society widely different opportunities and alternatives.

This article describes normative patterns of human sleep and wakefulness.

Recently, this methodology has been successfully applied to examine neonatal populations, defining normative patterns of large-scale neural network development in the maturing brain.

Differences in interpretation notwithstanding, Wang Bi and Guo Xiang converge in recognizing the place of certain basic normative patterns and principles in the order of nature, and the need to ensure that they do not deviate from it.

I argue that underlying the violation of dominant interpretations of space and normative patterns, often expressed as commodification of 'tradition', are diverse worldviews and concerns about the ways self- and community interests are expressed and realized.

To define normative practice patterns, the authors report the results of an online questionnaire addressed to members of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society CTOSS) regarding their views on the surgical management of pulmonary metastases in osteosarcoma.

In fact, that's the normative pattern.

"What we're working against is a normative pattern that says you're not a good mother if you go back to work before your child reaches a certain age," says Javornik.

Youth SIgA trajectories followed a normative pattern of reactivity and recovery around the stressors; however, these responses were blunted in youth with higher externalizing scores.

To be sure, individual movies will vary, but the normative pattern is for relative consistency across these sections, where 60% of the shots continue to show conversations, slightly more for dramas, less for action movies.