reSumenEn el presente trabajo se comparan las definiciones del concepto de "norma social" ofrecidas por la teoría de la elección racional estándar, cristina Bicchieri y Jon Elster. se trata de determinar en qué medida son o no asimilables. En la medida en que no lo son, se intenta establecer cuál de las aproximaciones captura mejor la naturaleza del fenómeno al que habitualmente denominamos norma social y cuál de ellas ofrece un concepto (o conceptos) más preciso y más fácil y fructíferamente utilizable en modelos explicativos. Se sostiene que la distinción trazada por Jon Elster entre normas morales, cuasi-morales y sociales tiene más éxito que las otras dos en dicho cometido. Pese a que el autor no prevé el uso de sus conceptos en modelos matemáticos formales con potencial predictivo, no hay nada inherente a los mismos que impida ese uso. Por otra parte, la precisión en la definición de los mismos los convierte en especialmente adecuados para ser utilizados en modelos de mecanismos que permitan ofrecer explicaciones causales parsimoniosas e informativas de los casos concretos. PalabraS claveCristina Bicchieri, Jon Elster, Norma Moral, Norma Cuasi-Moral, Teoría de la Elección Racional. abSTracTIn this paper we compare the definitions of social norm proposed by standard Rational Choice Theory, Cristina Bicchieri and Jon Elster. We try to determine how similar or different they are. as long as they present some differences, we try to establish which captures better the very nature of the phenomena that we usually name "social norm" and which provides us with a concept (or concepts) more precise and productive and more easily useable in explicative models. In our opinion, Jon Elster's classification between moral, quasi-moral and social norms is the more successful in this respect. in spite of the fact that Jon Elster does not plan to use their concepts in formal mathematical models with predictive purposes, there is not anything inherent in them which prevents this use. On the other hand, the precision of these concepts makes them especially useful to be used in social mechanism models which let us propose causal, informative and parsimonious explanations of real concrete cases.
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