normative

prescriptivo, normativo

Que indica cómo deben actuar las personas o cómo deben ser las cosas, en vez de describir la realidad.

En inglés sencillo: Saying how people should act or how things should be, rather than describing what happens.

• This is a normative claim about fairness.
• Normative grammar tells people how they should use language.
• Her argument is normative: it explains what governments ought to do.

Sinónimos: prescriptive

Antónimos: descriptive

Expresiones frecuentes: normative grammar, normative claim, normative judgment

normativo

Relacionado con las reglas o los criterios que se usan para juzgar algo.

En inglés sencillo: Connected with the rules or standards used to judge things.

• The study examines the law’s normative basis.
• These normative criteria help us judge the policy.
• The debate concerns the normative framework of medical ethics.

Expresiones frecuentes: normative framework, normative criteria, normative standards

conforme a la norma

Que se ajusta a la conducta o los criterios que un grupo considera normales o aceptables.

En inglés sencillo: Matching the behavior or standards that a group considers normal or acceptable.

• Such behavior is normative within this community.
• The survey describes normative family practices in the region.
• What seems normative in one culture may seem unusual in another.

Sinónimos: conforming, conventional

Antónimos: nonconforming

Expresiones frecuentes: normative behavior, normative practice

norma

Regla que se obliga a cumplir para mantener un nivel o criterio aceptado.

En inglés sencillo: A rule imposed to maintain an accepted standard.

• The authority introduced a new normative.
• These normatives preserve established professional standards.
• The institution enforces each normative through regular inspections.

Sinónimos: regulation, rule

Expresiones frecuentes: a legal normative, an institutional normative