our account of regimes and our account of practices as a function of four ontological dimensions relies on a set of sociological and normative assumptions. These assumption are linked to our capacity to identify social norms underpinning practices, our ability to attibute to them relative weight in terms of their foundational status, our suggestion that particular norms are more or less worthy candidates for public contestation and/or transformation, and so on … the very claim that a particular dimension is foregrounded, or that a particular dimension is being actively backgrounded, presupposes a sociological and normative view about the practice or regime (127).
Category: normative
Normative
the very process of problematization and critical explanation involves the identification of an aspect of a practice which is deemed worthy of public contestation, thereby imputing to it some normative import (145).