Family&Households: Topic 4- Demography~ Vital vocab Flashcards
What is ageing population?
When the population of older people increases.
What is ageism?
Discrimination against people based on their age.
What is assimilation?
The process where individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage absorbed into the dominant culture of society.
What is birth rate?
Number of births per 1000 of the population over a year.
What is a citizen?
A person with full citizenship, rights, voting rights and access to benefits.
What is the death rate?
The number or deaths per 1000 of the population per year.
What is deep diversity?
Non observable characteristics, like traits.
What is denizen?
Privileged foreign nationals welcomed by the states.
What is dependency ratio?
The amount of people that are dependent on the welfare state
What is economic liability?
Something or someone that causes economic loses.
What is emigration?
The act of leaving ones country to permanently to another country.
What is fertility?
The ability to conceive children.
What is globalisation?
Trade and tech making the world more interdependent.
What is helot?
Immigration used for labour.
What is immigration?
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
What is immunisation?
The action of making a person or animal resistant to a disease.
What is infant mortality rate?
The probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of one.
What is life expectancy?
The average period that a person may expect to live.
What is multiculturalism?
The presence of, or support of several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.
What is net migration?
The number of immigration minus the number of emigrants, including citizens and noncitizens.
What is shallow diversity?
Superficial aspects of cultural diversity?
What is total fertility rate?
The average number of children that are born to a women over her life.
What is transnational identities?
Migrants are less likely to see themselves as belonging completely to one culture or country.
What is demography?
The study of population and their characteristics.
