Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High SchoolThis ethnographic study of adolescent social structure in a Michigan high school 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
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PEER GROUPS THE SCHOOL AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION | 11 |
ADOLESCENT CULTURE SUBCULTURES GROUPS AND CLIQUES | 13 |
JOCKS BURNOUTS AND THE SCHOOL | 20 |
FIELD WORK IN THE HIGH SCHOOL | 25 |
PROBLEMS OF THE NATIVE ANTHROPOLOGIST | 26 |
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL | 76 |
THE PASSAGE TO HIGH SCHOOL | 93 |
THE CORPORATE STRUCTURE OF THE SCHOOL | 100 |
CAREERS AND THE CORPORATE SETTING | 103 |
JOCKS AND STAFF | 113 |
JOBS AND THE HIERARCHY | 117 |
INFORMATION | 131 |
LIFE OUTSIDE THE CORPORATION | 135 |
ESTABLISHING A SITE | 27 |
LIFE IN THE SCHOOL | 28 |
RELATIONS WITH ADOLESCENTS | 34 |
THE SETTING OF BELTEN HIGH | 36 |
THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT | 38 |
PHYSICAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL | 42 |
DAILY ROUTINES | 45 |
SYMBOLS OF CATEGORY MEMBERSHIP | 49 |
SCHOOL TERRITORIES | 51 |
LOOKING AND ACTING DIFFERENT | 60 |
THE GROWTH OF SYMBOLIC OPPOSITIONS | 69 |
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CATEGORIES | 73 |
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Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School Penelope Eckert No preview available - 1989 |
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