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

Eckert, Penelope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807729647 ISBN 13: 9780807729649

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 1990

Synopsis

This ethnographic study of adolescent social structure in a Michigan high school provides a brilliant new perspective on class-based reactions between individual students and the school. Dr. Eckert 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.

About this title

About the Author

Penelope Eckert is Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Stanford University, where she has also directed the program in Feminist Studies.

Review

“This insightful and original piece of research adds greatly to our understanding of stratification among adolescents.”

―Contemporary Sociology

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807729647
• ISBN 13: 9780807729649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208