Jocks and Burnouts
Social Categories and Identity in the High School
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Teachers' College Press
Published:30th Jun '90
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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.
“This insightful and original piece of research adds greatly to our understanding of stratification among adolescents.” ―Contemporary Sociology
ISBN: 9780807729632
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 295g
208 pages