Sentence:  As examples of <WSD>normalism</WSD>, such as the creation of a 'normal' demographic, economic or growth, make clear, the reproduction and continuity of normality require the state to translate 'this generally incomprehensible “landscape of curves” from the language of experts into the self-steering fantasy of the subjects' (Link, quoted in Remebert 2004: 6). Seeing <WSD>normalism</WSD> as a response to the challenge of modernity which success relies on state involvement prompts Link to identify it as a strategy of compensation. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A system of beliefs concerning how one determines what is considered normal.