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An important aspect of sociological enquiry is the relatedness of social phenomena. Adopting a case study approach, Dr Ruth Finnegan, Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, examines a networ...k of relationships centering on a pre-school playgroup. She talks to the playgroup leader and to people who, in a personal or institutional capacity, have had contact with the group. Finally Dr Finnegan is able to show that sociology, by providing a framework of analysis which enables us to see relationships between individuals, groups and institutions, can perform an integrating function for the other social science disciplines.
An important aspect of sociological enquiry is the relatedness of social phenomena. Adopting a case study approach, Dr Ruth Finnegan, Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, examines a networ...k of relationships centering on a pre-school playgroup. She talks to the playgroup leader and to people who, in a personal or institutional capacity, have had contact with the group. Finally Dr Finnegan is able to show that sociology, by providing a framework of analysis which enables us to see relationships between individuals, groups and institutions, can perform an integrating function for the other social science disciplines.
| Module code and title: | D100, Understanding society: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | D100; 05 |
| First transmission date: | 07-02-1971 |
| Published: | 1971 |
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| Duration: | 00:22:25 |
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| Producer: | Michael Philps |
| Contributors: | Michael Drake; Ruth H. Finnegan |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Bletchley playgroup; Pre-school playgroups |
| Footage description: | Michael Drake introduces unit. Ruth Finnegan introduces unit. She discusses the theme - interrelationships between people and also between institutions and people. A case study approach will be used. Shots of children at play in a supervised play group (pre-school children). Patterns of interrelationships of the people involved in the play group, both among themselves and with others are traced. An animated caption shows some of these patterns. Economic and political patterns formed by the play group are traced. Eileen Rust, the play group head mistress, discusses the organisation of the group. Funding and allocation of funds in the play group are taken up. Harold Price, a trustee of the play group discusses the organised political pressure which was used to form the play group. Historical background of the Bletchley play group given by Elizabeth Maxwell, one of the organisers. She discusses some of the reasons for the group at formation. The Bletchley play group's links with the national political scene are discussed. It was a founder member of the National Pre-School Playgroup Association (PPA) Barbara Keeley discusses the history and work of the PPA. She also takes up some of the effects of a play group on a community and particularly on the mothers of the children. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70093 |
| Production number: | 00520_1240 |
| Videofinder number: | 415 |
| Available to public: | no |
