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Jocks and burnouts : social categories and identity in the high school / Penelope Eckert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eckert, Penelope.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High school students--Michigan--Social conditions--Case studies.
- High school students.
- Social structure--Michigan--Case studies.
- Social structure.
- Socialization--Case studies.
- Socialization.
- Peer pressure.
- Social conditions.
- Michigan.
- Peer pressure--Michigan--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, é1989.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Field Work in the High School
- The Setting of Belten High
- Symbols of Category Membership
- The Development of Social Categories
- The Corporate Structure of the School
- Life Outside the Corporation
- The Effects of Social Polarization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780585311364
- 0585311366
- Publisher Number:
- 99977282254
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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