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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

PE

Mar 5, 2019

This course will open your eyes to different behavioural patterns that human engage in, teach how about the suppossed mudane but important things in our society and also how to carry out a research.

EG

Feb 21, 2022

This course opened my mind as to understand what moves people to do and/or think the way they do -and how to measure it- in order to be able to correctly intervene for social change. Simply amazing.

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By Erick O

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Sep 12, 2017

Great examples and well crafted methodology for online learning.

By Sanju d

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May 28, 2020

Its a good initiative course. I learned a lot of social things.

By Nadya

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Jan 18, 2018

Denied Certificate after successful completion of the course.

By Furqan A

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Aug 15, 2017

Very god course especially for the Development practitioners.

By sola a

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May 5, 2020

Very challenging for me but took me out of my comfort zone

By Ritika S

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Jun 15, 2021

The course was good but the quizzes were quite difficult.

By Christina

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Sep 5, 2017

I loved it and would take another course from Cristina.

By Jennifer M

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Oct 10, 2022

it was a great experience that need topping up

By Rik d G

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May 21, 2017

Great course, sometimes a bit hard to follow

By Victor K B

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May 18, 2020

Not very entertaining but practical to know

By Lillie K

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Jun 30, 2019

the terms became quite confusing to follow

By Shady M

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Jul 23, 2017

needs more tests, but it's great overall

By Abdullahinoor F

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Oct 11, 2021

thank you give me this golden chance

By Mukhtar A L

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Nov 28, 2020

Quite engaging and learnt a lot.

By Zaid A

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Jul 29, 2017

Well laid out, easy to follow.

By FAEL

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Mar 24, 2018

super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By eslam s k

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Jun 4, 2017

very useful thanks a lot

By Badrul H

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Aug 17, 2020

it is good to learn .

By Mahender G

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Nov 15, 2019

Very much appreciated

By Ridhi B

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Sep 25, 2021

Very Well explained

By Atupele M

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Aug 13, 2019

It is very helpful

By Muhammad S

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Oct 26, 2023

It was very great

By Abdalla O H

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Jun 7, 2017

helpful Course

By Yahia A

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Jan 27, 2021

Goooooood

By Mohamed A

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Jun 24, 2017

Thanks