Of course, there are exceptions to this blanket statement. Durkheim, for example, was a moral absolutist who saw society itself as the source of a transcendental moral authority. Yet the generalization holds. Religion is a common source of absolutism, but it isn't the only source. It is a sociological truism that any belief regime can become a functional substitute for religion, that is, a source of absolutist moral authority.
Sociologists view the market as a social construction.
But most economists view the market as a construct of nature, running by economic laws as absolute as the physical laws governing the wandering paths of the planets. A challenge for economic sociology is to overcome the philosophical divide between sociology and economics, at least to the point of considering what might be useful for developing new theory. These examples demonstrate that bold theoretical breakthroughs are possible when we take economics seriously. A challenge for our field, therefore, is to cross the philosophical divide and create the new theoretical syntheses. We could also take a lesson in rhetoric from economics, especially if we want to influence policy.