Resumen

SANDOVAL ARAGON, Sergio Lorenzo. El economista y el sociólogo: el pensamiento relacional como paradigma. Econ: teor. práct [online]. 2012, n.37, pp.59-88. ISSN 2448-7481.

This article contributes to a reflection about the reasons for the gap between the social sciences, particularly sociology and economics, in their historical process of institutionalization and autonomy. This gap has opposed both disciplines and has limited their explanatory power. It is argued that the choice between different epistemological perspectives has been closely related to a certain political positions and that this relation can explain the theoretical differences in these disciplines. To illustrate this, it is analysed a case study of the French context. It also argues about the advantages of the relational paradigm and explains how the inclusion of economics and sociology in this paradigm would allow their reunification, surpassing that pernicious gap. Also it exposes a sociological theory and an economic theory, which exemplify such unification.

Palabras llave : history of economic thought; economic sociology; heterodoxy; relational thinking; reflectivity; criticism.