It is interesting how people seem focused on changing the term "science" so as to exclude almost anything that isn't related engineering, mathematics and technology. That is a new trend and coincides with the rise of IT. It is, I believe, a development aimed at raising the status of the aforementioned fields by diminishing other fields. Science is not a term linked to mathematics. Science is: Sociology, economics, psychology, medicine are all sciences.1: the state of knowing : knowledge as distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding
2a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study the science of theology; b : something (such as a sport or technique) that may be studied or learned like systematized knowledge have it down to a science
3a : knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method; b : such knowledge or such a system of knowledge concerned with the physical world and its phenomena : natural science
The term used is STEM and with the rise of STEM, other(?) soft(?) social(?) sciences are definitely being deprecated. The argument here is that economists, based on their use of math, are attempting to end up in the STEM bucket rather than the social science bucket.
Economics as a study pre-dates many STEM fields as academic study.