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The Up series of documentary films follows the lives of ten boys and four girls in England, beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old. The first film was titled Seven Up!, with later films adjusting the number in the title to match the age of the subjects at the time of filming. The documentary has had nine episodes—one every seven ...
Sep 12, 2021 · Oliver as seen in 7 Up 2000, 14 Up 2000, 21 Up New Generation, and 28 Up Millennium Generation Most often, the best television is comprised from the stories of real people, and the Up series ...
- Seven Up: Relevance to A-Level Sociology
- The Strengths of This Small-Scale Longitudinal Study
- The Limitations
- How to Use This as A Teacher
- Tony: Working Class, and Grew Up in The East End of London
- Andrew
- Sue
- Nick
- Bruce
- Jackie
The most obvious link is to research methods, with this as a pretty interesting example of a longitudinal study, but it also shows other methods – namely semi-structured interviews and also ‘Life H...It also links to families and households – there’s a lot of focus on family life, it’s kind of like an application of the Personal Life Perspective– you get to see how the meaning of family varies...It’s a powerful reminder of how social class has influenced life-chances.The sample selection allows us to compare the life-progression of working-class kids and upper middle-class kids, from childhood to retirement.The in-depth nature of the study allows us to relate personally to the stories of individuals – many of the respondents talk about how they think ordinary people will be able to relate to their lif...Over the years a close relationship has built up between the director and the respondents, and the later now seem to own the process more – with more of the input coming from them.We get to see how political and economic changes have impacted individuals from their micro-perspective – this is a great example of an Interpretivist perspective, and it shows the sociological ima...The sample size is too small to make generalisations to the population. It isn’t worth doing statistical comparisons because of the low numbers.Women are underrepresented, especially now one has died and another has pulled out. And there is only one non-white participant.There seems to be a gender bias in the original interviews – with many of the questions focusing on marriage for the women, but less so for the men, so difficult to make comparisons.The study has clearly made the respondents minor celebrities, and being part of it may have made them lead their lives different.There’s a danger this might be of more interest to you as a teacher, and not so much to your students, especially if you’re of a certain age! However, you can give students a feeling for the documentary series by simply showing them the original summary YouTube clip (I recommend) which is quite entertaining, and then following up by a couple of cli...
In the original 7 Up, Tony is one of the more memorable characters, we see him running around a lot, falling over, climbing up railings, struggling to sit still in class and talking about how important it is to ‘have a fight’. His aspiration was to be a jockey, and he became one when he left school at 15, but after riding in three races and not pla...
Andrew was at boarding school in the original 7 Up, and in that very first episode states that he’s going to go Cambridge and study law. He did precisely that and became a solicitor, and ended up moving to America by his 30s to work for a big American Transnational. By 28 he married Jane, who I think was from a bit of a lower social class backgroun...
Unfortunately many of the early interviews with women focus on questions about marriage, which is a shame because it limits the content compared to the boys/ men! At aged 7 we see Sue talking about what boys like them and her life history focuses almost entirely on here relationships. She was married at 24, divorced kids by 35, and in a relationshi...
Nick was brought up on a farm in Yorkshire, so difficult to place his class background. He’s a very intelligent individual, clearly thoughtful as even a 7 year old, and went to Oxford to study physics, researching nuclear fusion. His research went nowhere, and he eventually ended up teaching it physics, at degree level, which he seems to be still e...
Bruce was in boarding school at seven, and his parents divorced while he was still boarding At 21 he was studying maths at Oxford and then spent period working in a state school as a teacher At 35 he took a sabbatical teaching in Bangladesh – he was on a bit of a mission to ‘give something back’ pointing out that education is the key to unlocking o...
Married Mick by the age of 21 and moved to the outskirts of London, decided they didn’t want children. She was divorced by 35. A second brief relationship led to one kid, then another one led to another two, and then another relationship. At some point she moved to Scotland and she’s still living there, living on disability benefits for years, alth...
Nov 2, 2020 · With the release of 63 Up last year, the series spans nine films and six decades. It is Apted’s most important work and one of the most revelatory documentaries about social change ever made. It ...
Mar 23, 2021 · Lewis began working on the Up series starting with 28 Up and stayed with the project (along with director Michael Apted, who died in January 2021) ever since. The following is an edited transcript ...
Jul 1, 2019 · Up has spawned a number of imitators, but Apted says only three other series have worked: "The British one, which was the first one, the Russian one and the South African one."
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Sep 29, 2021 · 28 Up is the latest series of a BBC documentary that started in the year 2000 for the millennium. Film-makers chose children aged seven years old from a variety of backgrounds, and have been ...
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