normativismn.

1928 Econ. Hist. Rev. 1 364 But ‘proletarian Socialism’..recognizes only..power, expressing itself in ‘social rationalism’ or ‘social normativism’—a mechanical order (or disorder) the establishment of which presumes the violent subversion of all rival systems.

1935 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 29 597 A violent reaction against the juristic idealism and normativism which have been characteristic of the leading schools of international legal thought in the period since the War.

1970 R. W. Friedrichs Sociol. of Sociol. x. 254 Bidney, a sharp critic of the relativizing motifs that have dominated anthropology since the turn of the century, is equally unhappy with the reductive normativism of F. S. C. Northrop.

1984 Dictionaries 6 279 Geeraerts and Janssens conclude by again considering the question of normativism or prescriptivism.

1996 Sociol. Theory 14 188 His argument..aims to pit Wittgensteinian ‘descriptivism’ against Mannheimian ‘normativism’.