Normative:
Establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour.
‘negative sanctions to enforce normative behaviour’
[Oxford Dictionaries]
Noted in “How to stay pro-tech when social media can eat young lives,” Pat Kane, NewScientist (1 July 2017):
One might have a romantic notion – the agenda-setting SF novels of Cory Doctorow come to mind – that the kids from the wrong side of the tracks would be the ones who demanded something different, less managed, more edgy, from their communication platforms. (Freitas’s students are clearly attending prestigious universities, where pressures to succeed keeps things normative.)
