Jocks and Burnouts

Jocks and Burnouts

Author	Penelope Eckert
Subject	Anthropology of education
Published	1989 (Teachers College Press)
Pages	208

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

External links

• Official website