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The distinction between social and economic issues is arbitrary politicized crap masquerading as serious conceptual analysis. The economy is part of society. Economizing is bound up in socializing and vice versa. The two are one and the same.
Using this framework to write off issues of one kind and emphasize issues of the other kind is just opportunistic manipulation. It distorts and confuses the conceptual landscape even further to the benefit of your particular agenda.
There is a strong link between social planning and economic planning (and social freedom and economic freedom). Yet being forced to choose between them has often been Step 1 in engaging in Real Politics in America.
Immigration restrictionists want to centrally plan the US labor market. Intellectual property supporter want to restrict people's speech. There are not multiple freedoms, really. Freedom is indivisible.
The impetus to choose between social and economic freedom is becoming a casualty of Trump-era American politics, though. Now it's in fashion to be loudly and overtly opposed to both social and economic freedom.
This is all related to a deeper issue, though. The left consistently fails to understand the true nature of the state, while the right and the libertarians agree on its nature, but disagree as to its goodness or badness.
The state is, by its very nature, an engine of militarism, violence, and hierarchy. It can't be twisted and contorted to serve the ends of freedom and equality. Trying that gets you 100s of millions killed.
