Basic concepts and theoretical concepts of sociology of economic life are covered. Methods of applying general theoretical knowledge for analyzing aspects of economic life are characterized. Based on the multi-paradigm methodology, a wide range of social and cultural processes related to various manifestations of economic activity are considered. The problems of the sociology of economic life are considered in a socio-historical and global perspective through the prism of pluralism of sociocultural and institutional forms of economic practices, trends in their universalization and the formation of a new, global level of their implementation.