Substantive Norm
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A Substantive Norm is a social norm (a standard in normative ethics) that is prescriptive rather than a descriptive or explanatory abstraction.
- AKA: Prescriptive Norm.
- Example(s):
- “The National Transplant Organization is not allowed to use racial data fr allocating organs to patients”.
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Normative Ethics.
References
2015
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/norm#Noun
- A rule that is enforced by members of a community.
- (Philosophy, Computer Science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm
- Norm (philosophy), a standard in normative ethics that is prescriptive rather than a descriptive or explanatory abstraction
- Norm (social), expected patterns of behaviour and belief, often studied in sociology, social psychology, and many other academic fields
2007
- (Grossi et al., 2007) ⇒ Davide Grossi, Huib Aldewereld, and Frank Dignum. (2007). “Ubi Lex, Ibi Poena: Designing Norm Enforcement in E-institutions.” In: Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems II. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74459-7_7
- QUOTE: There is a set of substantive norms which consists of those norms which describe the society’s behavior desired by the institution, and there is a set of enforcement norms consisting of norms regulating checks and reactions on violations of other norms. The following is an example inspired by the domain concerning the policies for data protection followed by the Spanish National Transplant Organization in the organ allocation process [10]. Example 1. (Types of norms for the specification of institutions)
- Substantive norm: “The National Transplant Organization is not allowed to use racial data fr allocating organs to patients”.
- Check norm: “The inspecting authority should perform random checks of the compliance to the previous norm every two months...”.
- Reaction norm: “If racial data are used in the allocation process, then the hospital has to be fined accordingly.”.
- Via such a normatively specified enforcement of the substantive norms, the enforcement issue is just lifted up to the set of enforcement norms because, if not regimented, those norms could be violated and be thus in need of enforcement.
- QUOTE: There is a set of substantive norms which consists of those norms which describe the society’s behavior desired by the institution, and there is a set of enforcement norms consisting of norms regulating checks and reactions on violations of other norms. The following is an example inspired by the domain concerning the policies for data protection followed by the Spanish National Transplant Organization in the organ allocation process [10]. Example 1. (Types of norms for the specification of institutions)