Surveying Social Norms: Challenges for Survey Research |
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| Coordinator 1 | Dr Ivar Krumpal (University of Leipzig) |
| Coordinator 2 | Mrs Anna Lena Fehlhaber (Leibniz University Hannover) |
| Coordinator 3 | Dr Anatol-Fiete Näher (Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam) |
Monitoring collective action as well as individual behavior and attitudes via surveys and big data has posed new challenges to the survey discipline. This session aims at presenting and discussing current survey research on social norms. We aim to discuss best practices, new challenges and innovative designs that address both methodological and substantive problems related to the emergence, enforcement, change and decay of social norms. The explanation and measurement of norm compliance / deviance are also of central interest in our session.
We invite submissions that address these issues and/or present potential solutions. We also invite applications of norm research from any discipline. In particular, we are interested in studies that (1) deal with substantive problems and applications of survey research, such as norm compliance, deviant behavior, ethical preferences in regards to allocation or trolley problems; (2) present current survey research focusing on public opinion in regards to the emergence of new social norms, values and the production of collective goods; (3) deal with methodological problems such as nonresponse, social desirability bias or sampling issues presenting innovative designs and solutions addressing these problems; (4) discuss the use of artificial intelligence in the collection and analysis of data on social norms; (5) present experimental survey research (e.g. factorial surveys, conjoint experiments, field experiments) and statistical procedures to analyze such data (e.g. conjoint analysis); (6) integrate innovative experimental designs in well-established, large-scale population surveys of the general population; (7) discuss best practices in surveying social norms.