Werner Sombart is one of the founders of modern sociology, although throughout his academic career he was a professor of economics, and his work today primarily attracts historians. All the founders of modern sociology were experts in philosophy, law, economics, and history - they created a new discipline precisely because the approaches of existing sciences to social reality seemed to them insufficient and one-sided. Reality itself is not divided into faculties, which is sometimes forgotten by their heirs who have chosen a narrow specialization. The variety of Sombart's interests is surprising even against the background of such German contemporaries as M. Weber, G. Simmel or F. Tönnies, but this breadth sometimes prevented Sombart from developing his own theory. He was first and foremost a historian, and belonging to this guild hinders the development of a comprehensive sociological doctrine - the historian’s empirical material does not fit into the inevitably schematic sociological theory and prevents the development of a universal methodology suitable for any society of any era. However, the advantages of such a position result in disadvantages in justifying one’s own historical research; Sombart's later works on sociological and economic methodology remained clearly imperfect sketches, inferior to his works on the history of capitalism.