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What does normative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
  2. Conforming to a norm or norms.
  3. Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
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Fetishism allows the fetishist to derive sexual pleasure where normative sexual intercourse does not.
Will Baude speaks to the constitutional questions, which I sidestepped in my column in favor of more directly normative ones.
An anthropological approach does not assume that biomedical concepts and practices are both normative and universal.
For Wallace, free agency can be understood neither in terms of certain motivational structures, nor in terms of normative judgement.
This ethic of tolerant acceptance can also contribute to an inability to articulate a broader, normative vision of family life.
In time, both prescriptive and normative qualities were ascribed to classical decision theory.

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