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Flashcards by Charlotte Wilkinson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Charlotte Wilkinson
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| Question | Answer |
| Anderson | His study showed that when people migrate they often rely on kin to facilitate their move |
| Sarah Harper (2012) | She argued that the education of women is the most important factor in falling birth and fertility rates b/c it has led to a change in mindset |
| Brass and Kabir (1978) | They argue that the trend to smaller families began not in rural areas, but urban areas where the MIR remained higher for longer, so it is not connected to the fall in birth rates |
| Tranter (1996) | They argued that over 3/4 of the decline in death rate was due to a fall in the no. Of deaths caused by infectious diseases |
| McKeown (1972) | Argues that improved nutrition accounted for up to half of the reduction in death rates from TB |
| Harper | They think that the fall in death rate did not come from medical improvements but a reduction in the number of people smoking |
| Walker (2011) | They believe that those living in the poorest areas of England die seven years earlier than those in the richest areas |
| Donald Hirsch (2005) | He notes that the traditional age pyramid is disappearing and being replaced with equal sized blocks |
| Donald Hirsch (2005) | He also argues that a number of policies will be needed to tackle problems caused by an ageing population and recognises that they will require a cultural change in attitude towards old age |
| Ehrenreich and Hochschild (2003) | They observed that care work, domestic work, and sex work, in western countries are increasingly done by women from poor countries |
| Phillipson (1982) | They argue that the old are of no use to capitalism because they are no longer productive so the state is unwilling to support them |
| Hunt (2005) | They think that we can choose a lifestyle and identify regardless of age |
| Pilcher (1995) | They argue that inequalities such as class and gender remain important |
| Steven Vertovec (2007) | He says that 1990s globalisation has lead to super-diversity |
| Robin Cohen (2006) | He distinguishes three types of immigrant: citizen, denizens, and helots |
| John Eade (1994) | They found that second generation Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain created hierarchy identities with Muslim, Bangladeshi, and then British, from top to bottom |
| Thomas Holland Eriksen (2007) | He argued that globalisation created more diverse migration patterns with back and forth movements of people through networks rather than permanent settlement in a country |
| Castles (2000) | They argue that assimilationist policies are counter-productive because they mark out minority groups as culturally backward or 'Other', leading to minorities emphasising their differences |
| Castles and Kosack (1973) | They think that having assimilationist ideas encourage workers to blame migrants for social problems benefits capitalism by creating a racially divided working class and preventing unified action in defence of their interests |
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