Families- Demography

Question 1

Falkingham + Champion?

Answer 1

Migration has increased the number of childbearing women, and impacts BR+DR

Question 2

Balbo et al?

Answer 2

Total Fertility Rate reduced due to:

• better contraception
• working women
• child centerdness

Question 3

Office of National Statistics?

Answer 3

BR increased as women of all ages are having children and there’s better government policy to support families

Question 4

Norman?

Answer 4

Decline in youth dependency ratio is good in the short term but bad in the long term

Question 5

Evandrou et al?

Answer 5

Decline in Infant Mortality Rate is key to decline of DR

Question 6

Moore?

Answer 6

Decline in DR due to adoption of biomedical model of healthcare

Question 7

Tranter?

Answer 7

Fall in DR due to antibiotics being dispensed on the NHS

Question 8

McKeown?

Answer 8

Fall in DR not due to medical advancements, but better overall nutrition, hygiene and public health

Question 9

Marmot review?

Answer 9

WC die younger than MC due to more physical work and psychological wear of being poor

Question 10

Key?

Answer 10

More old people = more spending needed on NHS and social care

Question 11

Cumming and Henry?

Answer 11

Marginalisation of elderly is beneficial for society

Question 12

Hockey and James?

Answer 12

Being elderly is a social construct

Question 13

Green?

Answer 13

we are guilty of individual ageism and institutional ageism

Question 14

Vincent?

Answer 14

Structure of society forces the elderly to be vulnerable

Question 15

Featherstone and Hepworth?

Answer 15

In postmodern society people are free to reject their chronological age

Question 16

Raghuran and Erel?

Answer 16

Most migration is due to social networks

Question 17

Cases and Miller?

Answer 17

We live in the age of migration; it’s the new norm

Question 18

Bradley?

Answer 18

Translocalism leads to hybrid identities