TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Cosmopolitanism and the relevance of 'zombie concepts': the case of anomic suicide amongst Alevi Kurd youth
JO  - British journal of sociology
A1  - Cetin, Umit
SP  - 145
EP  - 166
VL  - 68
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1315
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12234
ID  - ref1
ER  -