topic 4 Flashcards
Education of women is most important reason for long term fall in birth rates. Has lead to a changed mind-set resulting in fewer children.
Harper
Argues the improved nutrition accounted for up to half of the reduction in death rates and important reducing deaths from TB
McKeown
Greatest fall in death rates has come not from medical improvements but simply from reduction of number people smoking
Harper
Living in the poorest areas of London can lead to a death seven years earlier on average
Walker
Marxist perspective this person argues that the old are of no use to capitalism because they’re no longer productive. As a result state doesn’t protect them so family does
Phillipson
We can define ourselves by what we consume. This means we choose. Lifestyle and identity regardless of our age: our age doesn’t determine how we live
Hunt
decline in death rate has come from the decline in people smoking.
Harper
those living in the poorest areas of england die 7 years earlier than those in the richest areas on average.
walker
super diversity- since globalisation in the 1990s migrants now come from a much wider range of countries.
vertovec
three different types of migrants- citizens ( with full citizenship rights), Denizens (privileged foreign nationals eg. billionaires) or Helots (literally slaves most exploited group a reserve army of labour domestic servants)
cohen 2006
feminisation of migration- 40% of adult care nurses in the UK are migrants
Shutes
fall im IMR leads to fall in birth rate cause if infants die parents may have more to replace them .
Harper
