Argument of Jocks and Burnouts

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Argument of Jocks and Burnouts
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Eckert, Jocks and Burnouts, p. 6

• While many of the origins of the Jock-Burnout
  split are in the adult economy, that split is
  made real by adolescent social dynamics. Adults
  do not impose their class system and ideologies
  on adolescents they provide the means by which
  adolescents can do it themselves.

• What do you agree or disagree with here?

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Eckert, Jocks and Burnouts, p. 6

• While many of the origins of the Jock-Burnout
  split are in the adult economy, that split is
  made real by adolescent social dynamics. Adults
  do not impose their class system and ideologies
  on adolescents they provide the means by which
  adolescents can do it themselves.

• If one were writing a paper about gender
  socialization, how could one use this statement?
  How could one re-write it?

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Adolescent social category is the adolescent
interpretation of . . . parents socioeconomic
class (Eckert 1989, p. 99).

• Why not just say
• Adolescent social category adult social class
• ?

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Peer Social Category and Social Class
Eckert, P. (1989). Jocks and Burnouts Social
Categories and Identity in High School. New York
Teachers College Press.
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Status

• The local term for status in adolescent
  cultures is popularity.
• Popularity is not about being liked but
• being visible and being known.

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Three Characteristics of Status Systems

• Status. . .
• Comes from conformity to group norms
• Comes from social associations
• Is limited