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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 Sarah S

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Jun 18, 2017

Excellent course, well delivered and a good balance of detail and insight with laymen terminology. I would definitely recommend this course!

By Nakarin C

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Jul 10, 2020

it s a very good course for any persons who interest the social sci and this course gives me a new len to see how the societies really are

By Pablo G

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Nov 14, 2019

Very interesting and useful course. People should learn about this, so better programming oriented to behaviour change could be developed.

By MD. A R H

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Nov 2, 2019

I have come up with in and outs of social expectation, norms and behaviour responsible to create or abandon these norms. Helped me a lot.

By Haroon A

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Jul 13, 2019

excellent course , helpful , gradual information cascade , sumarrizing from time to another ,practical examples , discussions . thank you

By elnaz a

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Nov 10, 2021

it was my first experiment about online learning.and it was so helpful and amazing. I am grateful for your effort and time for training.

By Mohamed A S M

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Jan 29, 2019

I suggest this course to my all colleagues b/c will give us a lot of solutions for our community problems , thank you for this chance

By Eman S

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Sep 11, 2019

very beneficial course, specially for me to understand the different terms of social norms and social change in different communities

By christian I B

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May 14, 2020

Amazing! very useful and complete applied theory for understanding and measure social norms in field. i really enjoy this trip.

By Beverly C

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May 2, 2020

Excellent course, and fantastic Lecturer Ms. Cristina Bicchieri made the course interesting and eager to learn. I thank you.

By stacey m

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Jun 13, 2020

I enjoyed the course thought it was really interesting and hard at the same time. would recommended other to do this course.

By Lili V

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Sep 7, 2023

Professor Bicchieri is a true scholar and a pioneer in her field. I learned a lot in this course, and I want to take Part 2.

By Anthony C A

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Aug 13, 2016

I like the course! Very practical! It satisfies my curiosity and interest in answering why people behave the way they do.

By Aksheyaa A

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Apr 2, 2020

As a psychologist and a human rights major, I felt this course was extremely useful to me and will help me in my future!

By Godfred O A

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Apr 18, 2017

Excellent program. I really appreciate the new exposure to bring social issues and conditions pertaining to social life.

By Josyula K L

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May 4, 2017

This course was well-paced. The short videos, sprinkled with questions, and interspersed with essays, worked very well.

By Hekmatullah k

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Jun 27, 2020

The course gives you a clear understanding of the social root of the problems and how to do research in solving them.

By Ruby S

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Jul 4, 2017

The course was wonderful to make me understand how open defecation is a social norm and make my facts clear about it.

By Sarah P

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Oct 6, 2016

A very fascinating course if you're interested in learning the inner workings of why people behave the ways they do.

By Olha K

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Feb 16, 2017

The course is practically oriented and is connected to the most challenging topics in UNICEF practice. Very useful!

By Melati A A

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Apr 11, 2021

Incridible, this course was really helpful for student who trying to comprehend social norms or sociological major

By Marco C

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Mar 28, 2020

I am a real beginner in this field, I enjoyed the clear explanations of the basic concepts, definitions and tools

By Saori G

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Dec 2, 2017

One of the best courses I have taken online. A must if working for outreach programmes in the humanitarian field.

By Xiaoyu H

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Mar 25, 2019

This course is quite good for me, a beginner of sociology research, to get to know some theory of the society.

By Do Q A

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Jun 28, 2019

As a person who works in the development field, I found the content of this course is interesting and useful!