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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

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.

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.

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By Desi C

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Aug 12, 2017

Great course for those who have a concern for social change and a non prudential personal normative belief to bring a social change for benefit of all. Greatly structured course and very well explained by

Cristina Bicchieri.

Thanks a lot :-)

By Riccardo R

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Mar 30, 2022

Brilliant. It's a perfect companion course (and more) to Bicchieri's books and papers. Highly recommended.

Sad to see so many people faking their replies in the discussion prompt exercises just to get - I guess - that 100% achievement (?).

By Maira C

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Nov 27, 2021

A social norms approach to trade calls for identifying behaviors you would love a group of people to undertake, at the same time as increasing perceptions of that conduct as something individuals in their group do or are starting to do.

By Wiyengha W

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Apr 15, 2020

This is a good course that gives one an in debt knowledge of societal norms, community reactions to the norms and how they can be evaluated and the bad norms can be eradicated. i am very impressed and hope to continue when time permits

By Hans B v d B

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Dec 30, 2017

Great course, learned a lot about analysing social norms and how the different sides of social norms. The perspectives from the field were also very interesting and informative. Also the lecturer was very articulate and a great speaker.

By Vera-Maria D S

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Oct 12, 2022

Very good! Easy to follow, thanks to the great lecturer Mrs. Bicchieri, but very rich and comprehensive in content. One is able to learn very much, and so this is very helpfull for anyone who might need this area of studies for work.

By Karol A M

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Feb 9, 2021

It is a great course which very well explains theory of social norms and applications to situations relevant to children's rights. I highly recommend it for people who design interventoins that attempt to change collective behavior.

By Camlus O O

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Dec 1, 2016

Cristina makes difficult concepts such as randomised response approach to limiting social desirability bias easy. Very easy to navigate, and the Android App is efficient and effective. Lots of new learning too, no recycled content

By Olivia J

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Jun 21, 2022

I really enjoyed learning about this course material and found it relevant to my work. I highly recommend it. I also recommend that the course designers ensure that the text below the videos is accurate for accesibility purposes.

By Khyam

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Aug 13, 2020

I found this course highly interesting as it blends both theory and practices. For a greater and in-depth knowledge that it offers, learners are expected to pay a careful and attentive participation. Highly recommended.

By anurag

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Jan 19, 2020

This course gave me the reasoning behind all events which i see on day to day basis. From complex issues by the governments to minute details shown by my friends and family. Cant Thanks enough to learn this course.

By Alvaro C

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Sep 10, 2017

I really enjoyed taking this class. First of all, it gave us tools on how to approach norms and behaviours, and secondly it made is seem clear. I will definitely use some of the learnings in my future missions.

By christine a a

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Nov 25, 2020

A great initiative. This course has enabled me to be able view certain issues in different perspectives that I never knew existed in my community. Will definitely help in my mentorship dream!!!!! Thank you!

By David L F R

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Apr 16, 2020

It is a really great course. The content is very interesting, the topics are well divided and presented, all the given information is clear and the lectures are amusing. You can learn a lot in this course.

By Rajaa B

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Mar 26, 2018

A brilliant course that organizes the formation of social norms as a science, helping activism aimed at changing negative norms achieve higher success rates. The Professor and Unicef did an amazing job!

By Emilia G

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Feb 22, 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.

By Nahum J A

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Aug 30, 2020

The course materials are educative and just right for education purpose, I appreciate the facilitator and say thank you for your time and the knowledge you impact on me about Social Norm’s

By Waqar A

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Nov 23, 2019

its been really wonderful to have Social Norms, Social Change certificate course . Bicchieri C, Lindemans is wonderful lecturer , explain in simple and easy way which is easy to understand.

By William M

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Aug 31, 2020

I really enjoyed the course. It absolutely made me reconsider how I approach a problem. Understanding the reason why people think the way they do is essential in driving positive change.

By Pablo C G

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Oct 4, 2020

The course provides very clear explanations of the theoretical concepts in connection with social norms, as well as numerous examples on how to apply such theory in real life situations.

By Arwa A

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Aug 20, 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 .

By Excellence D

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Oct 13, 2019

For a first time user, fresh to this information, it was stimulating and exciting to be learning how to identify social norms etc. and how to measure various aspects to effect change.

By Mohamud M

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Jun 6, 2020

The course materials, videos and readings are quite detailed and appropriate to enable one easily understand the subject, participate in discussions and answer the quizzes questions.

By Sarah S Y

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Jun 15, 2017

Really enjoyed this course. Insightful. Professor clearly communicates course content. Could do without all the opening jingles/intros since the video clips are really short, though.

By Victoria C

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Jan 14, 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!