ABSTRACT
The relation between economics and sociology as contemporary academic disciplines is somewhat difficult to characterize for the simple reason that there is no paradigmatically unified economics and much less so a paradigmatically unified sociology. Though, judged from textbooks, major journals and professional meetings, standard neo-classical economics apparently is the dominant perspective in economics, there exists today a variety of theoretical approaches which distance themselves more or less from the neo-classical mainstream. For sociology, it is not even possible to identify a mainstream theory. After functionalism and neo-Marxism have both lost their temporary prominent positions, sociology has disintegrated, at least on the level of theory, into an amorphous set of numerous perspectives with no indication of theoretical convergence in sight.
