----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- In response to Pat's post, there is actually not alot of work done in sociology that would fall under the rubric of a sociology of economics. Recently, Roger Krohn of McGill has been trying to drum up some interest in expanding work in this area, although he has done quite a bit of work himself in the past on this topic. I don't quite understand Pat's assertion that a sociology of economics would look at those who use a "unified method of reasoning," and that this would exclude many people who have been labeled "economists" by themselves and others. Indeed, an interesting sociological question would be why those people (like Weber and Veblen, for example) have been excluded from the discipline. Yuval Yonay asked a similar question in his excellent book "The Struggle Over the Soul of Economics." Leave it to methodologists to try and define "economics." A sociology of economics would look at the social structures and interactions of people who engage in "economics," however defined. Jonathon Mote Department of Sociology University of Pennsylvania ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]