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This ethnographic study of adolescent social structure in a Michigan high school shows how the schools 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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title Jocks and Burnouts Social Categories and Identity in the High - photo 1

title:Jocks and Burnouts : Social Categories and Identity in the High School
author:Eckert, Penelope.
publisher:Teachers College Press
isbn10 | asin:0807729639
print isbn13:9780807729632
ebook isbn13:9780585311364
language:English
subjectHigh school students--Michigan--Social conditions--Case studies, Social structure--Michigan--Case studies, Socialization--Case studies, Peer pressure--Michigan--Case studies.
publication date:1989
lcc:LC205.5.M5E34 1989eb
ddc:373.18/09774
subject:High school students--Michigan--Social conditions--Case studies, Social structure--Michigan--Case studies, Socialization--Case studies, Peer pressure--Michigan--Case studies.
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Jocks and Burnouts
Social Categories and Identity in the High School
Penelope Eckert
Page ii Published by Teachers College Press 1234 Amsterdam Avenue New - photo 2
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Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Copyright 1989 by Teachers College, Columbia University
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Eckert, Penelope.
Jocks and burnouts: social categories and identity in high school
/Penelope Eckert.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8077-2964-7.ISBN 0-8077-2963-9 (pbk.)
1. High school studentsMichiganSocial conditionsCase
studies. 2. Social structureMichiganCase studies.
3. SocializationCase studies. 4. Peer pressureMichiganCase
studies. I. Title.
LC205.5.M5E34 1989 89-33266
373.18'09774dc20 CIP
Manufactured in the United States of America
01 00 99 6 7 8 9
Page iii
This book is dedicated to my mother,
Dorothy Applegate Eckert,
who helped me maintain perspective
during my own adolescence.
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Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
1. Introduction
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Social Categories in the High School
2
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The Reproduction of Social Inequality in the Schools
6
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Peer Groups, the School, and Social Reproduction
11
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Adolescent Culture, Subcultures, Groups, and Cliques
13
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Jocks, Burnouts, and the School
20
2. Field Work in the High School
25
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Problems of the Native Anthropologist
26
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Establishing a Site
27
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Life in the School
28
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Relations with Adolescents
34
3. The Setting of Belten High
36
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The Local Environment
38
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Physical Arrangement of the School
42
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Daily Routines
45
4. Symbols of Category Membership
49
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School Territories
51
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Looking and Acting Different
60
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