Answer to Question #264468 in Sociology for Munangiwa

Question

Consult academic sources and define these two forms of normativity.

Answer 1

Normativity refers to the mutual expectations that enable meaningful action. The two forms of normativity include Text-driven normativity and Data-driven normativity.

Text-driven normativity is deeply intertwined with what speech-act theory has coined the performativity nature of speech acts that do what they say: declaring two people man and wife actually attributes all the legal effects of marriage, instead of merely describing the marriage.

Data-driven normativity is deeply twisted with the feedback loops generated by predictions and if ‘the data’ predict that one is inclined to criminal behavior, the police, the psychiatrist and even the subject themselves will base some of their decisions in part or entirely on such predictions whether or not they are correct; noting that this is hard to test outside the laboratory.