''Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School'' is a 1989 book-length ethnographic study of
social class
A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of Dominance hierarchy, hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class and the Bourgeoisie, capitalist class. Membership of a social class can for exam ...
in a Detroit high school written by sociolinguist
Penelope Eckert
Penelope "Penny" Eckert (born 1942) is Albert Ray Lang Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Stanford University. She specializes in variationist sociolinguistics and is the author of several scholarly works on language and gender. She served as ...
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1989 non-fiction books
Ethnographic studies of education
English-language non-fiction books
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