title: Cosmopolitanism and the relevance of 'zombie concepts': the case of anomic suicide amongst Alevi Kurd youth.
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.
authors.affiliation: Sociology, University of Westminster.
authors.forename: Umit
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Cetin
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008131:London; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012923:Social Class; D012934:Social Isolation; D012937:Social Mobility; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Alevi Kurds; Cosmopolitanism; anomic suicide; rainbow underclass; transnational migration; zombie concepts