For any organization, place, or function, large or small, safety is a normative concept.

But soft power is a descriptive rather than a normative concept.

It is a normative concept of reasoning in the sense that rational people should derive conclusions in a consistent way given the information at disposal.

Diversity itself is a normative concept, a framework that embraces difference.

This is in part due to the recognition that knowledge, like value and goodness, can be seen as a normative concept.

SSR is both an operational as well as a normative concept.

And stress is not an anxiety disorder and it is not a normative concept.

Kim explains that epistemology and knowledge are nearly eliminated in their common sense meanings without normative concepts such as these.

Opponents of the Electoral College claim that such outcomes do not logically follow the normative concept of how a democratic system should function.

Social accounting, a largely normative concept, seeks to broaden the scope of accounting in the sense that it should: