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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!

TA

May 15, 2019

Was a fascinating course that highlighted we human beings are driven by norms and societal expectation. Negative norms can be turned positive with the right kind of intervention.

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By Dora C

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Feb 20, 2021

Mind opening! culturally educating! Brilliant....nice...well structured and highly relevant!

By Jacob A M

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Sep 10, 2019

I was much interested and have learn many concepts in this course. The course very excellent

By Md. M M

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Mar 11, 2020

Great lectures. Repetition made catch the previous discussions and go on to the next level.

By Basudev M

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Jan 27, 2019

It's a very useful course to understand the society and various dynamics of social change.

By Serena C

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Dec 29, 2021

I really enjoyed this course. It taught me a lot about things I didn't really understand.

By Tofail A

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Sep 6, 2019

Excellent way of learning in collective approach with examples. I am enjoying the course.

By Omezi B

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Sep 12, 2022

This course is really the best. the lecturer is wonderful. She's so good at explaining.

By Marta G

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May 5, 2020

Good course! I refresh a lot of my old competence and learn new things! thankyou so much

By Fabian L

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Dec 9, 2019

Very interesting. The concepts are continously repeated which makes it easy to remember.

By Gabrielle D

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May 27, 2017

I loved this class. As a social entrepreneur, I found it both surprising and inspiring !

By Daniel W C N

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Sep 4, 2021

I absolutely learnt alot. Both the videos and notes are very clear and easy to follow.

By Habib H

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Sep 19, 2019

Very informative to learn basic concepts of Socials Norms and Social Change theories

By Mohammad A

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Nov 15, 2016

A great course indeed! Excellent lecture together with theory and on field examples!

By Alanah K

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Feb 17, 2021

Engaging and experienced lecturer. Relevant and interesting case studies. Loved it

By Fabiano M

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Aug 25, 2020

The course is fantastic, and I'm looking forward to applying the concepts in real.

By Takondwa K

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Mar 18, 2020

The Course is very helpful and the materials very relevant and easy to understand.

By Ronnel J C

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Aug 8, 2019

I have learned a lot and it will help me in formulating better interview questions

By Ajirioghene A

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Dec 19, 2019

The course was very easy to follow and useful for practical delivery in the field

By Zainab M

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Jun 7, 2019

This course was really great.I got so many good ideas and learnt so many things.

By Zita M

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Dec 21, 2020

Very exciting theories, which I find quite revealing, too. Thank you so much!

By Kimberly N

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Jan 22, 2019

Very well organized. I like how she reviews each concept and gives examples.

By Neha S R

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Aug 13, 2017

I learned so much from this course! I would 10/10 recommend this to my peers!

By Sarah A

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Mar 7, 2021

I really like it and it helps me to understand better the kinds of behavior.

By Aung Z M

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Feb 26, 2017

very useful to implement behavioral change projects and social change issue!

By Dhanushka E

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Nov 24, 2019

this is the first course I've done via online and I learnt a lot. thank you