Name: Social Norms, Social Change I
Brand: University of Pennsylvania
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.6 (522 reviews)

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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

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!

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 Sharon S

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Sep 21, 2021

Interesting but: too much jargon, hard to follow and missing examples in western world. Would like to see more the limitation of this theory

By Lujain A

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Jul 28, 2019

it was so confusing but I tried my best, not cause the instructor is bad, just cause there were too many similar concepts

By Rishabh S

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Apr 28, 2020

The course is not that interesting but I really like the example from the different countries that was given by UNICEF.

By Gilbert H

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Aug 15, 2020

I think this course in very important for researchers in order to get the right answers from the communities

By Bassel A

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Jul 5, 2017

Quizzes are very confusing and English translation is awful and full of mistakes a

By Anja J

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Feb 20, 2022

Overall a good course, however quite repetitive which was often frustrating.

By Jan S

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Feb 10, 2018

Ok course, the further you get into the course th better the lectures,

By Ni N

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Aug 7, 2020

the pace is too slow, even for the introductory level.

By OUMAIMA M

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Feb 3, 2025

Thanks for this initiative.

By Annie

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Apr 3, 2020

Easy and fun!

By Lucia K

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Oct 27, 2017

Good course!

By Ibrahima

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Mar 22, 2019

Excellent

By Sharmin K L

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Jun 25, 2022

Helpful!

By Suraj k

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May 13, 2020

I learnt to critically question how peoples behaviors are motivated. Examples from different communities were good. The language jargon could be lesser so concepts could be understood more easily.

I wish the course could have been more valuable in terms of teaching us how to measure behaviour and also in terms of the hours spent.

By Joann N B

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Oct 22, 2022

Even though the course content was factual. Most subject matter discussed throughtout the course was disgusting.

I am sad people live that way.

By Mohamed A

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Jul 15, 2017

Very very boring course and old English to understand , i don't recommend it to anyone who isn't interested in those things , if you are not , you will just stuck in it and cannot go through it , hard to understand , lake of info and lake of teaching ability , i really didn't like it , the worst online course i have ever had

By Heather G

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Jun 20, 2022

The material is interesting. However, the course is very badly presented and very badly written. It was extrodinarily frustrating to complete, so much so that I am not doing part two.