Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School

Brand: Teachers College Press

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UPC:
9780807729632
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
8/1/1989
Author:
Penelope Eckert
Language:
english
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This ethnographic study of adolescent social structure in a Michigan high school shows how the school's institutional environment fosters the formation of opposed class cultures in the student population, which in turn serve as a social tracking system.