normative

[ nawr-muh-tiv ]

/ ˈnɔr mə tɪv /

of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.

tending or attempting to establish such a norm, especially by the prescription of rules: normative grammar.

reflecting the assumption of such a norm or favoring its establishment: a normative attitude.

Origin of normative

First recorded in 1875–80; norm + -ative

nor·ma·tive·ly, adverb nor·ma·tive·ness, noun un·nor·ma·tive, adjective

Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.

Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans |Philip K. Howard |December 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“We are crushing it on the normative front,” the ever-blunt Ambassador Power declared.

House of Cards Star’s Real Battle Against Rape |Nina Strochlic |March 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The perspective offered by a normative discipline requires a reliance on empirical knowing.

Nursing as Caring |Anne Boykin
It is in thinking that the normative principles of thought emerge.

The Idea of God in Early Religions |F. B. Jevons

Thus is answered the dispute whether logic is empirical or normative, psychological or regulative.

Reconstruction in Philosophy |John Dewey
And, if we go back to the Politics of Aristotle, we find the normative or regulative aim still more prominent.

The Group Mind |William McDougall
But we must learn how intimately to combine the empirical and psychological with the critical and normative.

International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I |Various

normative

/ (ˈnɔːmətɪv) /

implying, creating, or prescribing a norm or standard, as in language normative grammar

expressing value judgments or prescriptions as contrasted with stating facts normative economics

of, relating to, or based on norms

normatively, adverb normativeness, noun