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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 Laura P

Jan 13, 2023

Thank you and God bless C. Bicchieri for sharing her theories and broadening our understanding of humankind!

By Нуржан К

May 10, 2022

An excellent and very interesting course, I sincerely thank the teachers. I wish you success and prosperity.

By Geofrey T

Nov 9, 2020

The course content was delivered in a way that is user-friendly and easy to navigate through and understand.

By Marzie A

Dec 8, 2019

Great resource for those designing social surveys/experiment and want to enhance their survey design skills.

By Amr S R

Dec 13, 2018

I was a great course and we learned a lot and learned how to work with society in a different waymany thanks

By Hajrudin S

Mar 29, 2023

Great examples and great resources. With this theoretical basis people are equipped to lead real change.

By Nirmal G

Aug 28, 2019

It is wonderful to learn about how our society and the way people living in it behave;cause and effects.

By Lucy D

Oct 18, 2017

I was evaluating the 'manageability' of these types of courses and found it very 'manageable'! so 10/10!

By Sabrina P

May 11, 2019

Very well structured. It is really useful forpeople working in programs where social norms are involved

By Zark B

Aug 7, 2020

Good and basic introduction to people who want to learn about how other people act and why they do so.

By Luz H H

Dec 5, 2019

The content was clear, relevant and contextualized for a better understanding throughout the lectures.

By Nirina A

Sep 28, 2016

It's very interesting for monitoring the Social Change. I's very useful for implementing the programme

By JOY O

Sep 6, 2020

So far, the course has been very interesting and elaborative. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

By Kirubhaharan J

Jul 24, 2019

This course social norms and social I can help to understand current situation take in part of world

By Ritsu N

Jun 26, 2017

Very useful course. Gave me a lot of ideas on how to go about designing social change initiatives.

By Mahrukh I I S

Apr 21, 2022

This course is very much informative that we can learn about different perspectives of human life

By Sheikh Z R

May 1, 2021

Excellent course especially the presentation and the lecture of the professor is full of clarity.

By Quji B

Apr 11, 2020

Very practical and concise course. Very useful in identifying and treating various social norms.

By Sergio M S

Jul 20, 2022

Great course to better understand about Social Norms and Social Change.

Thank you very much!

By Oiram J B d S J

Nov 22, 2019

Excelent course to whom need critical information about how to change the society to welfare.

By DORA C

Feb 21, 2021

Mind opening! culturally educating! Brilliant....nice...well structured and highly relevant!

By Jacob A M

Sep 10, 2019

I was much interested and have learn many concepts in this course. The course very excellent

By Md. M M

Mar 11, 2020

Great lectures. Repetition made catch the previous discussions and go on to the next level.

By Basudev M

Jan 28, 2019

It's a very useful course to understand the society and various dynamics of social change.

By Serena C

Dec 29, 2021

I really enjoyed this course. It taught me a lot about things I didn't really understand.