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I agree with this, they aren't much different.

Economics is a social science.

Economists, like Sociologists, have trouble predicting the future and the past.

The only thing, in my opinion, that separates Economics from Sociology is that for economic activity to take place there's also a hard substance that can be tracked, eg. money, but also other goods or services. Sociology is the social science that focuses on everything else in the field that isn't that. Sociology is Economics poor cousin, as it were.



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