RT Article
T1 Cosmopolitanism and the relevance of ‘zombie concepts’: the case of anomic suicide amongst Alevi Kurd youth
JF The British journal of sociology
VO 68
IS 2
SP 145
OP 166
A1 Cetin, Umit
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/168931964X
AB 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.
K1 Alevi Kurds
K1 Zombie concepts
K1 Anomic suicide
K1 Durkheim
K1 Transnational migration
K1 Rainbow underclass
DO 10.1111/1468-4446.12234