Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sociology Unit 1:Demography
- Infant Mortality Rate
- the number of children who die before their first
birthday,per thousand born alive per year
- better health services
- Improved housing & better sanitation
- higher wages
- NW: having children to old= an unhappy childhood
- NW: Teenage preganices= decline in moral values
- Birth Rate
- The number of live births per thousand of the population
per year
- changes in the position of women
- deciding to have a carer first or not have children at all
- lower infant mortality, lower birth rate
- child centerdness
- much attention is focused on the children
- parents have fewer children to focus on them
- Funct&NR: worried if couples dont have children- undermines nuclear family
- Fertility Rate
- the average number of children women
will have during their fertile years
- smaller families- women
can still go to work
- reduces the dependency ratio on the population
- Death Rate
- the number of deaths per thousand of the population
- improved nutrition
- medical improvements
- public health measures
- The Ageing Population
- The average of the UK population
- increases one person households
- increases dependency ratio on population
- social construction: old people as vulnerable
- Functionalist: 'march of progress' better healthcare
- NW: elederly should be cared for by family
- Migration
- the movement of people from place to place
- IMMIGRATION: into
- EMMIGRATION: out
- NET: the difference between immigration
& emigration
- Marx: immigrants end up doing the worst jobs
- Interactionism: 'moral panic'
- people move into the country for more money
- immigrant women have more children- higher fertility rate