ABSTRACT
As “interest” and “social relations” are very general concepts, they were quite often mingled together in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is only after the institutionalization of political economy and sociology that economic sociology became a subfield in the second half of the 20th century. The chapter begins with a brief review of the complex interactions within 19th-century social sciences dealing with the economy, then it considers more specifically these interactions during the beginning of the 20th century, the so-called classical period of sociology.
