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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 Pramila S

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Apr 18, 2019

Helpful Indeed!

By Mario S

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Nov 6, 2017

excelente curso

By Ibraheem F M M

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Jun 30, 2017

It is wondefull

By JENNIFER L

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Aug 12, 2020

Clear and Fun!

By Bouhout A

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Jul 23, 2017

Amazing course

By Daseul K

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Jun 15, 2019

Good course!!

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Aug 12, 2017

Extremely val

By Gabrielle A J

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Apr 28, 2023

very helpful

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Aug 12, 2022

good ccourse

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Jan 7, 2021

Great course

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Dec 22, 2018

Good Course

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Apr 30, 2017

interesting

By Anna K

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Jun 28, 2020

Fantastic!

By Dani V

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Jun 16, 2020

relevant!!

By Franciska O

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Aug 9, 2019

excellent!

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Mar 10, 2019

very good!

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Sep 11, 2018

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Jun 19, 2023

Excelente

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Mar 13, 2020

Excellent

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Mar 10, 2020

fantastic

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Apr 10, 2019

Excellent

By Sami M A Q

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Oct 21, 2018

excellent

By EDGARDO R N

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Feb 5, 2018

Excelente

By Amar A

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Dec 8, 2017

thank you

By Maii A E

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Jul 15, 2017

good work