Economic Sociology: An Examination of Intellectual Exchange.

This article examines the trends in the development of economic sociology and the impact that economic sociologists have on their respective fields. Scholarly interest in the gray is overlapping economics and sociology has brought about intellectual exchange between the disciplines concerning common issues. The work in this area concerns issue of interest to both economists and sociologists and has been called economic sociology, socioeconomics or socio economics. Economists tend to be concerned with theoretically oriented mathematical models of rational individual maximization. Current attempts at integration between economics and sociology are being made by many influential theorists and researchers. Since major goals of economic sociology are to inform social policy and develop social theory, economists and sociologists must both participate. The charge of economic hubris along with the trends in the development of economic sociology a social problem is chosen that is of concern in both economics and sociology discrimination in labor markets.