Demography

Question 1

Harper

Answer 1

Changes in womens position
-Legal equality, educational opportunties, divorce access, contraceptive control
-Changed mindset, delay childbearing for a career
-Fall in IMR reduces grief couples face

2012

Question 2

Hirsch

Answer 2

Ageing population
-Age pyramid disappearing
-Ageining population: Increased LE, decreased IMR, decreased fertility
-Policices needed to takcle issues such as financing population

2005

Question 3

Postmodernism

Eval

Answer 3

Ageism
-Old excluded from paid work, state unwilling to support
-Now orderly life stages broken down
-Children adult styles, anti-ageing rejuvination
-Old have greater choice influenced by media and image

Pilcher (1995)- inequalities limit choice

Question 4

Vertovec

Answer 4

Acceleration + Differentiation
-Globalisation created super diversity, wide range of countires, differing legal statuses
-Citizens, Denizens (privaledged visitors), Helots (slaves)

2007

Question 5

Hochschild

Answer 5

Feminisation of migration
-Domestic, care, sex work done by women from poor countries
-Expansion of service occupations
-Western women working
-Western male unwillingness
-Failure of state childcare provision
Global transfer of female emotional labour through Nannys and ‘mail order brides’

2003

Question 6

Eriksen

Answer 6

Politicisation of migration
-Diverse movements mean culture isn’t tightly bound
-Transnational identities
-Assimilation policy (host culture), however counter productive, stigmitises rather than encourage
-Multiculturalism (Shallow + deep diversity), believes only sallow diversity accepted, ignores deeper issues such as arranged marriges, racism

2007