The Up Series was a series of documentary films, it followed the lifes of 14 British children who where ages 14years old since the 1964.The fourteen children that where selected, showed and represented the different socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that particular time. Also the assumption at that time was that each child's social class predicted their future. The children that where selected were chosen to represent the different social classes in Britain in the 1960s.
There were a mixture of children that where selected boys and girls.
3)John, Charles and Andrew - attended a pre-preparatory school in London - Kensington.
8)Tony - Tony was chosen from a primary school from the East End of London. He wanted to be a jockey at 7, and was at a stables training for it at 14.
9)Paul - Was at a charity-based boarding school when he was 7, due to his parents being divorced he was left with his father.
10)Simon - Was the only participant with an ethnic minority background also he was chosen from the same charity home as Paul. He was a illegitimate child, and never go to know his black father and was therefore had to leave the charity home to live with his mother.
11)Nick - Raised on a small farm in Arncliffe, which was a tiny village in the Yorkshire Dales. He was educated in a one-room school, and later at a boarding school.
13)Neil - Was the most unpredictable out of the entire group. At seven he was funny, full of life and hope. By the time of 21 Up he was homeless in London
12)Peter - Peter went to the same middle-class Liverpool suburban school as Neil and, at seven, they both wanted to be astronauts.
14)Bruce - Was concerned with poverty and racial discrimination and he wanted to become a missionary. He was at a prestigious boarding school. At the age of seven, he said that his greatest desire was to see his father, who was living in Rhodesia, and he seemed a little abandoned
7)Jackie, Lynn and Sue - three girls were chosen from the same primary school in a working class neighborhood of London.
4)Suzy -comes from a wealthy background, and was first filmed while she was at a boarding school.
The original hypothesis of 7 Up, was that the class structure is so strong in the UK that a person's life path would be set at birth. Also the idea of class immobility held up in most cases, but not in others as the series has progressed, as the children from the working classes remained working class people, but Tony was seens to have become more middle class.The series became popular enough that the participants often speak of being recognized in public.
- The reality show 7 Up, does relate to my text as it films people and follows there lives, but it is also diffrent as the 7 up show follows childrens lives where as big brother follows the lives of people ages 18 and over. But 7 up shows the the diffrent class systems in people where as Big Brother focuses less on people social class, and more about there personlities.
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