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.
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Social Norms, Social Change I
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Interdependent & Independent Actions + Empirical Expectations
Normative Expectations + Personal Normative Beliefs
Conditional Preferences + Social Norms
Pluralistic Ignorance + Measuring Norms
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- 5 stars72.85%
- 4 stars20.29%
- 3 stars4.90%
- 2 stars1.02%
- 1 star0.92%
TOP REVIEWS FROM SOCIAL NORMS, SOCIAL CHANGE I
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 .
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.
This course is both informative and practical! It manages to convey the complexity of social norm analysis and measurement while remaining accessible to students with no prior knowledge.
Firstly thank you to UNICEF and Pennsylvania University for this opportunity . This course for really helpful to knowledge in Social environment and teach in practically about Behavior.
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