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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 Mbia E B

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Jan 16, 2017

Very very interesting lecture

By Rongpeng L

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Jul 3, 2016

Very informative and logical.

By Maryam S

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Jan 24, 2023

Wonderful, amazing lectures!

By Abhishek P

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Jul 31, 2022

Extremely engaging and crisp

By Chang1003

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Mar 6, 2021

Clear and thought-provoking.

By JOHN Q

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Aug 10, 2017

INTERESTING AND FUN COURSE!

By Deleted A

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Jan 1, 2017

Great learning experience

By Tatiana F

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Nov 18, 2021

This course is amazing!

By Laís M

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Aug 23, 2020

Great course, I like it!

By V S

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Jul 5, 2021

very nice illustrations

By Hugo C

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Apr 17, 2020

Concise and meaningful

By Ahmed T

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Oct 14, 2019

Insightful, thank you.

By ZAHABIYA A

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Dec 26, 2018

good learning course.

By LEONARDO F

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Jun 17, 2017

Incredible!!!! Fantas

By Marvellous S

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May 13, 2022

An excellent program

By Siddesh D

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Feb 23, 2019

Beautifully designed

By Ganga S

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Nov 26, 2016

A real eye opener!!!

By Saurabh D

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Mar 26, 2018

very comprehensive!

By Libero P

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Aug 12, 2025

Πολύ καλό μάθημα.

By Florien B

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Apr 11, 2022

Excellente course

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Jun 11, 2020

Excellent course!

By Graziella D A B

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Sep 18, 2019

Thank you so much

By Musa k

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Aug 12, 2025

very imformative

By AMINTA E C M D M

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Jun 24, 2023

Fantastic course

By Raymond K

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Jun 25, 2018

very informative