Dear Bob,

Here are a few references pertaining to such issues that I use in my teaching:

Philip Corrigan:

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1981.tb00176.x

Berkman et al. "Durkheim in the new millenium" (on social integration):

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953600000654

and (I hope you read French, because it is a question French speaking authors have been dealing a lot with!):

B.P. Lécuyer:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3319861

Giovanni Paoletti:

http://ress.revues.org/426

Hans Peter Müller:

https://trivium.revues.org/4490

Catherine Rhein:

http://www.cairn.info/revue-espace-geographique-2002-3-page-193.htm

See also this introduction by the guest-editors to a special issue of the journal Trivium on Durkheim:

http://trivium.revues.org/4436

Best regards

d.

Dear Denis, many thanks. Appreciate it. Unfortunately, I don't read French. Bob

Yes, both of Durkheim's key concepts can be shown to have powerful effects on, respectively, anomic and egoistic suicides.

Bob you might try to get documents translated try Google translater to translate Denis documents. I don't know how good it would be but it could be wortwhile for your project

Ah Durkheim!  Of great interest to me in my undergrad years as a Psych major, so many years ago. I read his book on the subject and di a major research report on it. As a psychiatric social worker, I dealt with suicide, then moved on to research and programs, including the stats and changing rates. In general, I would say that his framework and concepts are still very relevant and it would be most interesting to see how you apply them to current times and changes.

The first article mentioned by Denis Bocquet is in English and I found it available in pdf form; here it is.  Sometimes articles are translated and available, so I will look at the others he mentioned.

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/psychology/Colloquium/Berkman_2000_social_integration.pdf

Another vg source: https://www.academia.edu/3009987/Embodiment_emotions_and_the_foundations_of_social_order_Durkheim_s_enduring_contribution

Although  you've asked this question from the perspective of sociology, sociology can be seen as the anthropology of 'our' own (Western) societies. From this broader perspective, Durkheim's insights about social integration (which in large part concerns establishing trust between non-kin) and moral regulation (the compulsive element underwriting the trust, acting as a disincentive to free-riding) remain absolutely central to current debates about what makes us human. The reason is that there's been a remarkable convergence between this classic strand of social anthropological theory (Durkheim 1912 to Rappaport 1999) and recent evolutionary theory concerned with the role of costly ritual signals  in making religion an adaptive trait (various papers by Richard Sossis and Joseph  Bulbulia over the last 13yrs). One of the best writers pulling all this together is Chris Knight.

Dear Mary-Helen and Ian, greatly appreciate your thoughts. I will try getting those articles. Many thanks. Bob

Yes. There are still significant but most of the literature are in French. I do not speak french. You can reach Joseph Okebunor on research gate

Many thanks Okechukwu. Greatly appreciate it. I don't think I can find many good and comprehensive works from Asia universities. The largest two countries like China and India have their own model and agenda. The closest they refer to are cultural elements from Confucius. A lot of policies are economic driven rather than social driven.

I would not rule out literature in English without a literature review.  Durkheim is very much still in the sociology classrooms in universities.

Many thanks again, Mary ...

I believe that they are still valid concepts. The question might be framed in another way: To what degree have changes in society--particularly from the transition into Modernity (Durkheim's era), to the transition into post-Modernity (our era)--change the emphases on these themes. I suspect that we are witnessing a redefinition of 'individuality', vs. what began in Modernity, and specifically in the phenomenon of the urban stranger and the suburban 'good neighbor', both of which were about accepting and respecting 'privacy'. With the growth of the Internet and Social Media, the very notions of individuality, privacy, and social controls on behavior are shifting to a new form of collective consciousness- and yet without a clear sense of collective community or commitment; a consciousness not yet equipped with a conscience.  Although there still may be little true apprehension of the social underpinnings of the phenomenon of suicide, in somewhat amazingly contradictory ways, its prevention is now a wide-spread discussion.

Thanks Thomas.

Hello Thomas

I'd like only to stress a subtle difference in the two block frameworks of Durheimian sociology. You can also read Philippe Steiner, perhaps one most autorized French specialist on Dukheim work. Regulation and integration are two processes akin to division of labor. Former looks for rewarding differences in professional performance, we are talking about professionals skills in industrial social world, latter seeks to hold the indidivuals centered on collective values. This is the latent conflict in modernization process. So, Lehman comments (before) on validity  of this concepts for post-modernity society have been well stated. 

For example, let's think in job market. There is a good regulation of human labor when the salaries of CEOs are 1000(?) times the average salary in Europe?

Thanks a lot

Silvio Salej

Bob, you can revise the works of a French Durkheimian sociologist nowdays Philippe Steiner,

L' école Durheimienne.

Here are some key-points:

Social integration: how the collective maintain the individuals close one of others by common social representations, norms, etc.

Moral Regulation: how the collective manage the hierarquies by a fair sense of retribuition. In this dimension Durkheim works with "anomie".

Both dimensions works together and there are specific mechanisms of interplay. Parsons, Merton's funcionalistic sociology re-visited Durkheim about how pluralistic societies could be cohesive.

John Rawls in his Theory of Justice, worked, in a philosophical vein, a systematic analysis of "anomie" in liberal society and Welfare State.

Best wishes