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About the Course

This is a course on social norms, the rules that glue societies together. It teaches how to diagnose social norms, and how to distinguish them from other social constructs, like customs or conventions. These distinctions are crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones. The course teaches how to measure social norms and the expectations that support them, and how to decide whether they cause specific behaviors. The course is a joint Penn-UNICEF project, and it includes many examples of norms that sustain behaviors like child marriage, gender violence and sanitation practices. This is Part 1 of the Social Norms, Social Change series. In these lectures, I introduce all the basic concepts and definitions, such as social expectations and conditional preferences, that help us distinguish between different types of social practices like customs, descriptive norms and social norms. Expectations and preferences can be measured, and these lectures explain how to measure them. Measurement is crucial to understanding the nature of the practice you are facing, as well as whether an intervention was or was not successful, and why. In Part 2, we will put into practice all we have learned in Part 1. New! Please use this link for a 30% discount on the recommended book that accompanies this course! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780190622053/?cc=us&lang=en&promocode=AAFLYG6...

Top reviews

VC

Jan 13, 2024

It's a challenging but fulfilling course that enables you to fully understand the world a little bit better. Make sure to take notes, plenty of notes if you have no memory like me!

AA

Aug 19, 2017

GOOD course i learn from it a lot of information and concepts about the community and how to analyse the behavior of my community and think different about the solution of the problem .

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By Peterclaver Y

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Jan 18, 2022

very educative and the instructor was excellent.

By Khatima A

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Nov 3, 2020

Both the instructor and the topic were awesome.

By Shumaila B

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May 25, 2022

Great course. I learned alot from this couse.

By Natia J

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Jul 22, 2018

Excellent course. Enjoyed so much! Thank you!

By H T

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Sep 20, 2016

Nice compilation of lectures and case studies

By Felicia M

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Mar 30, 2018

Very informative course....great professor!!

By Salvador E M R

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Jan 21, 2022

excelente curso, muy instructivo y practico

By Sára C

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Nov 6, 2017

Enjoyable, informative, really interesting.

By Andreas T

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Apr 13, 2019

Great course.

Looking forwards for part 2.

By flora g

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Nov 20, 2024

Very good introduction, clear and useful

By Guillaume N

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Jul 28, 2019

Well done, instructive, easy to follow.

By FRANK A

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Oct 14, 2020

AN EXCELLENT COURSE. VERY INTERESTING.

By Md R

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Aug 31, 2024

It's helpful in my professional life.

By Kairav K

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Apr 28, 2021

Interesting, easy to learn and useful

By Maung M Z

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Oct 12, 2020

I am not getting certificate by free.

By sonia c

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Apr 13, 2019

a very interesting course.. thank you

By Rafat A

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Jul 26, 2017

The course is wonderful and helpful

By Catalina M

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Mar 24, 2019

Thank you for the amazing course.

By Sean F

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Jul 26, 2019

incredibly useful and insightful

By Dehua G

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Sep 23, 2017

Great course, great experience!!

By Lean L

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Jul 26, 2023

老师讲课非常清晰，引用的实例非常具体贴切，很有助于理解社会心理

By Iman A

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Jan 5, 2017

Very useful and well-organized!

By Jean-Paul A T

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Mar 31, 2020

Merci au Pr Cristina Bicchieri

By khaled y a a

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Jan 14, 2018

Very wonderful I learned a lot

By Mbia E B

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Jan 16, 2017

Very very interesting lecture