@article{ref1,
title="Cosmopolitanism and the relevance of 'zombie concepts': the case of anomic suicide amongst Alevi Kurd youth",
journal="British journal of sociology",
year="2017",
author="Cetin, Umit",
volume="68",
number="2",
pages="145-166",
abstract="Against Beck's claims that conventional sociological concepts and categories are zombie categories, this paper argues that Durkheim's theoretical framework in which suicide is a symptom of an anomic state of society can help us understand the diversity of trajectories that transnational migrants follow and that shape their suicide rates within a cosmopolitan society. Drawing on ethnographic data collected on eight suicides and three attempted suicide cases of second-generation male Alevi Kurdish migrants living in London, this article explains the impact of segmented assimilation/adaptation trajectories on the incidence of suicide and how their membership of a 'new rainbow underclass', as a manifestation of cosmopolitan society, is itself an anomic social position with a lack of integration and regulation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1315",
doi="10.1111/1468-4446.12234",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12234"
}