In political science, there's much more of a mainstream approach using the economic tools. Sociology in parts started as a reaction against economics,. Early leaders said sociology is going to study things that economists have gotten wrong or neglected. The Deaf field is partly defined as doing things differently than economists do them.
Russ Roberts interviews Gary Becker, of the University of Chicago, on the challenges of being an intellectual maverick, the economic approach to human behavior, the influences of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall on Becker's work and Becker's optimism for the future of economics.