Jocks and Burnouts

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Jocks and Burnouts
AuthorPenelope Eckert
SubjectAnthropology of education
Published1989 (Teachers College Press)
Pages208

Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School is a 1989 book-length ethnographic study of social class in a Detroit high school written by sociolinguist Penelope Eckert.

Further reading[]

  • DaMatta, Roberto (1991). "Review of Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School". American Anthropologist. 93 (4): 1005–1006. doi:10.1525/aa.1991.93.4.02a00710. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 681033.
  • Montemayor, Raymond (November 1990). "Review of Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School". Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. 35 (11): 1095. doi:10.1037/030608. ISSN 0010-7549.
  • "Review of Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School". Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health. 5: 22. June 1990. ISSN 0886-3784.
  • Useem, Elizabeth L. (1990). "Review of Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in High School". Contemporary Sociology. 19 (6): 900–901. doi:10.2307/2073258. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 2073258.

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