RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

             Sociology and economics are the branches of the social sciences .They have very close relationship.Economics deals with the economics activities of man which is also called science of bred and butter.Economics is the study of production,distribution and consumption of goods and services.Economics es concerned with material welfare of the human beings.Economics welfare is only a part of himan welfare and it can be only sought only with the proper knowledgeof social laws.It cannot go far ahead without the help of sociology and other sciences.

             Sociology and economics are helpful to eachother.Economocs relationship are closely related with social activities as same as social relationship are also effected by economic activity.

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            Thus due to such relations ,Thomas regarded economics as the branch of sociology which is known as economic sociology and is use to studyeconomic process of the society.Some economist like Sam Bart,Max Weber,Pareto have explained economic change as aspect of social change.According to them,the study of economics would be incomplete without understanding of human society.The  society,it's structure,organization,it's institution,it's strength and witness e.t.c are bound to effect economics activitiesof it's people.On the other hand,according to Karl Marx,the social phenomenas are determined by economic forces .And social reality or social change can be explained in terms of economic forces.
         According to Karl Marx,the infrastructure of society is nothing but the economic relations among it's people are something.

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        Now the area of co-operation between sociology and economics is becoming wider.Economist are now analyzing the social factors influencing economic growth.Economist are now more and more making use of the sociological concept and generalizations in the study of economics problems.Besides there are certain social economic problems of greater importance to be studid by both economist and sociologist.The problem like poverty,unemployment,over population e.t.c have both social and economic implications.

            DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

     Inspite of interdependence of those two sciences,they are quite distinct from eachother .The main differences between them are given below.

• Sociology studies all kind of social relationship whereas economics deals with only those social relationships  which are economic in character.
• Sociology is a general science but economics is special science.
• The scope of sociology is wider and has comprehensive view points,the scope of economics is narrow.
• Sociology is abstract in nature and social variables are very difficult to measures and to quantity.Economics is concrete in nature and it's variable can be measured and quantified mare easily and accurately.