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

Penelope Eckert — Teachers College Press, 1990

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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.

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  • FormatPaperback
  • PublisherTeachers College Press
  • Published1990
  • SubjectEducation & Teaching › Schools & Teaching
  • Pages195
  • LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN-139780807729632
  • ISBN-100807729639

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