heteronormativeformal usually disapproving

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Rules & laws
administrative
admiralty
anti-bribery
anti-regulatory
anti-sodomy
binding
blue law
humanitarian law
invocation
juridical
juridically
juristic
land tenure
legislation
provision
Rafferty's rules
the rule of law
uncalled
uncanonical
unenforceable

Examples of normative

normative
The second consideration that makes me hesitant to accept the idea that welfare should be seen as a normative concept is purely economical.
Yet important normative questions have remained about the policies a liberal state should adopt toward religion.
I state them in terms of the ideal concept of normative economics that welfare economics is supposed to encapsulate.
In time, this repetitive attribution of a particular symbolic value to certain social actions became assumed as normative.
But if coherence leads to not treating people as equals, as we argue, then local coherence loses its normative force.
Finally, the extent of negative consequences of a disorder can vary as a function of normative developmental trajectories.
I believe that the normative responses to reasoning tasks as well as the systematic deviations from them can be explained within a single reasoning system.
His defence of sambandham occupies precisely that normative terrain, used in the legal discourse to deny legal sanction to it.
Their formulation, which is entirely reasonable, is to encourage research in which normative responding is at least possible.
But science cannot evaluate the normative or values basis for these policy directions.
The development of the new theory came about in reaction, both normative and scientific, to the anarchy model.
It soon becomes clear that any attempt to use normative models to describe the individual household is ideologically charged.
Furthermore, many of the biological processes that have been discussed in this paper as possibly being related to resilience are in fact normative processes.
Normative statements of the type embodied in at least the first two principles may not, therefore, travel very well.
The analysis thus shows that economic theory choices are simultaneously policy choices and also normative statements about society.
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