Normative

Normative in academic disciplines means relating to an ideal standard or model, and in particular a normative statement (or norm see below) is a statement that affirms how things should or ought to be, that is how to value them.

Normative disciplines include:

• Normative economics, a branch of economics that incorporates value judgments
• Normative jurisprudence, a branch of legal theory,

and in philosophy, see

• Normative ethics, a branch of philosophical ethics concerned with morality, and
• Norm (philosophy)

Normative may also refer to:

• Normative assessment, in education, a type of test or evaluation
• Normative mineralogy, a geochemical mineralogy calculation

See also

• Normative Aging Study
• Standardization, the process of developing and implementing technical standards sometimes called norms

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