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

Abstract

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.

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Elizabeth L. Useem, Penelope Eckert (1990). Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in High School.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. https://doi.org/10.2307/2073258

@article{l1990jocks,
  title  = {Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in High School.},
  author = {Useem, Elizabeth L. and Eckert, Penelope},
  year   = {1990},
  journal = {Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews},
  doi    = {10.2307/2073258}
}

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