Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School by Penelope Eckert

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

Penelope Eckert

195 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction education challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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