对经济法、社会法的概念和特征作明确定位 ,是探讨经济法与社会法的关系、实现两者功能互补与相互协调的关键所在。作者认为 ,应将社会法定位于劳动法与社会保障法 ,并与经济法并列于社会主义市场经济法律体系中。经济性是经济法区别于社会法的本质特征 ,社会性与现代性是经济法与社会法的同质特征 The explicit positioning of the concepts and features of economic law and social law is the key to discussing the relationship between economic law and social law and realizing the mutual complementation and coordination of the two. The author believes that the social law should be located in the labor law and social security law, and economic law and juxtaposition in the socialist market economy legal system. Economy is the essential feature that distinguishes economic law from social law. Sociality and modernity are the same characteristics of economic law and social law