Sentence examples for normative relationship from inspiring English sources

Indeed, it is in this sense that there exists some normative relationship between A and B, some duty that B has to obey A, which constitutes authority.

For example, a police officer who compels a confession from a suspect or extorts money steps outside the limits of the legitimate authority usually accorded to the police; the officer thereby engages in coercion, which is the opposite of authority where the presence of a normative relationship is involved.

They also incorporate adoptive and other non-biological parental relationships into a single account of parenthood, whereas genetic accounts seem forced to view non-biological parenthood as a distinct type of normative relationship.

Obligation in this second sense describes a normative relationship between two or more parties, one that can be created via a suitable act of will; for example, by what Gilbert calls an exercise of joint commitment.

However, joint commitments thus specified imply a normative relationship between the parties thereby committed: if A and B are jointly committed in some way, then each of them is obligated to act accordingly and each of them is entitled to demand the other's conforming action; in other words, they owe each other such action (cf. Gilbert 2009).

A heterosexual, normative relationship is much easier to be in because the rules are there that's considered cheating, that's not.

This early attachment experience explains the development of normative relationship-specific behavior in later life.

Like so many men in their twenties (and more than a few well into their thirties and forties), Patrick is caught between two competing worlds: a dominant gay culture that celebrates, even encourages, us to take pleasure in easy promiscuity and those not-so-silent voices from our childhood telling us to strive for a "meaningful" hetero-normative relationship -- preferably one with a hot doctor.

Hence, the attachment theory is widely used in research to explain normative as well as non-normative relationship-specific behavior.

Dina Holtzman, in her book Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora, states that the death of Jai, and resultant break of bonding between the two male leads, is necessary for the sake of establishing a normative heterosexual relationship (that of Veeru and Basanti).

Yet, trained staff collected the data in settings where active substance use by participants was normative and relationships between participants and staff often predated OEND implementation.