ABSTRACT
The main conceptions of the relationships of interdependence between economy and society which have been developed by social science classics – Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Schumpeter and Polanyi – are critically analysed, in order to arrive at a rigorous and articulated definition of the scope and method of economic sociology and contextualize its emergence as an autonomous field of study in the light of the double differentiation – structural and cultural – that characterizes the revolution of modernity.
These classical conceptions provide the theoretical foundations of modern economic sociology.
