A particular elephant in the room here might be that economists also not uncommonly engage in policy advocacy, yet the stereotypical sociologist's political adv

A particular elephant in the room here might be that economists also not uncommonly engage in policy advocacy, yet the stereotypical sociologist's political advocacy is left-wing and the stereotypical economist's political advocacy is right-wing, at least relative to one another. Maybe one part of that is that the two have fairly different understandings of what makes human societies tick.