18 July 2016 8 377 Report

We have notable figures on sociology like Weber, Durkheim, Marx, etc., a century ago. Capitalism, free economy, financial economy, stock exchanges, etc., have all changed so much - if I may say, probably since 1980s, and especially in this new information age? Changes in various aspects of our lives and families were tremendous and rapid (to the extent some sociologists termed as chaotic) since the past four decades.

Do we have a good author who provide comprehensive thoughts of capitalist system besides Adam Smith (of which many areas he spoke about may not be as applicable in the current financial economic system)? Do we have an equally good author to provide some comprehensive thoughts about communism (and what really is communism?) 

The past few regional / world recessions were caused by financial markets (speculative funds, stock markets, currency, derivatives, etc., probably more than underlying economic or social issues). There has been very established studies to link economic recession or depression to suicide. Can we say then we are entering (or already entered since four decades ago) an era where suicides are mainly caused by economic system or economic factors (or by-product of the economic system) ... and Durkheim's sui generis sociological analysis may loose more ground? Or we are slowly seeing a resurgence of interest of these fundamental sociological thoughts like Marx, Weber, Durkheim?

Will we see a research paper one day that may say: Suicide: From an Economic Perspectives?

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