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17 Cards in this Set
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Demography |
the make up and diversity of the UK |
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Birth rate |
the number of live births per 1000 of the population per year |
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Fertility rate |
the number of live births per 1000 women aged 15-44 per year (number of children each woman is having) |
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Infant mortality rate |
the number of deaths of infants under a year old per 1000 of the population per year |
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Death rate |
the number of deaths per 1000 of the population per year |
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Migration |
the number of people entering the UK (immigration) and leaving the UK (emigration) |
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Factors that caused the population increase/decrease |
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Decrease in death rates |
due to : - better imunisation - introduction of the NHS - better economy - less people smoking - better education - food is cheaper |
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Ageing population |
- People aren't having as many children - people are living longer - overall the majority of the population is getting older - overall this leads to more reconstituted families |
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Beanpole family Brannen |
- an ageing populations leads to longer, thinner family trees - more generations within them - more likely to include grandparents and great grandparents -grandparents play a bigger role in their children's lives |
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New Right |
-like grandparents playing a bigger role in their grandchildren's lives because it means they are getting primary socialisation from the 'golden age' -however it does mean the women can go out and work which they don't like |
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Net migration |
More people, overall, coming into the population than leaving +most people coming into the country are young and looking for work - more people to do the jobs that old people are retiring from - puts stress on services such as the NHS, and the education system which has to cater to those of different cultures who speak different languages |
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timeline of net migration |
1950's - largely from the Caribbean, needed more people to work in the NHS after the war - also lots of migration from India to fill more skilled medical jobs 1960/70's - Bangladeshi and Pakistani families seeking asylum from civil war in their own countries 1970's - people seeking asylum from Uganda due to Idiami 2000's - Present - a lot of eastern European migration due to be being part of the EU, pound is worth more than the Euro, looking for a better life, a lot from Poland and more recently Syria and Iraq |
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New Right - Net migration |
- don't like it - believe it 'dilutes our traditional values' - Theresa May has been heard saying this when she was foreign secretary |
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Feminism - Net migration |
- liked it because in the 50's most of the people coming over were women to work as nurses making them the breadwinner of the family - single parent families didn't become some what acceptable until there were so many that the government couldn't control them. |
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Victor et al |
- found that older people from Bangladeshi and Pakistani families didn't know whetehr they could depend on their children to look after them - due to children and grandchildren developing more British values |
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Chamberlain and Goulbourne |
- Studied Afro- Caribbean mothers in Leeds - single mothers were often supported by extended and fictive kin ( friends neighbours etc.) |
