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This documentary film, shot in a hostel for the mentally disabled in Lancashire, shows in considerable detail the small group interaction of the hostel's residents. It demonstrates staff/resident, ...staff/staff, and resident/resident relationships with considerable frankness. The programme follows the teaching exercises contained in the Seymour film and is related more specifically to the social interaction part (Block 2). Professor Aaron Cicourel, Professor of Sociology, San Diego University California, discusses in a radio programme the research which one of the course team members, David Boswell, carried out in this same hostel.
This documentary film, shot in a hostel for the mentally disabled in Lancashire, shows in considerable detail the small group interaction of the hostel's residents. It demonstrates staff/resident, ...staff/staff, and resident/resident relationships with considerable frankness. The programme follows the teaching exercises contained in the Seymour film and is related more specifically to the social interaction part (Block 2). Professor Aaron Cicourel, Professor of Sociology, San Diego University California, discusses in a radio programme the research which one of the course team members, David Boswell, carried out in this same hostel.
| Module code and title: | D283, The sociological perspective |
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| Item code: | D283; 05 |
| First transmission date: | 25-03-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:34 |
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| Producer: | Ken Patton |
| Contributor: | David Boswell |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Mentally handicapped; Sociology |
| Footage description: | Shots of inmates in the Hostel dancing to 'Simon Says'. Boswell introduces the programme over shots of the hostel. He explains how the hostel operates, for whom and how attempts are made to actively engage the residents in some work. Shots of laundry, workshop, sewing and packaging sanitary towels. Boswell is most interested in the social interaction aspect. Boswell explains where inmates come from. Sequence shows Frank being brought to the Hostel, welcomed and shown round by Mr. Lee and Mrs Titley. Interior of Hostel, TV room. The inmates return from work at the training centre, Mrs Titley chatting to them, they give her a rug. She introduces Frank to many of them. Sequence takes place in dining room with everyone having tea. Tea sequence continues. Washing up and putting things away sequence. Shots of what inmates do in the evening. Some go out but most watch television, chat or play draughts. Shots of Mrs Titley washing someone's hair, a letter being dictated and some of the more able residents chatting. The evening sequence continues with residents playing dominoes, chatting and finishes with them barn dancing. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70602 |
| Production number: | 00521_2222 |
| Videofinder number: | 147 |
| Available to public: | no |
