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

Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School
ISBN-10
0807770043
ISBN-13
9780807770047
Category
Education
Pages
195
Language
English
Published
1989-01-01
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Author
Penelope Eckert

Description

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.

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