Re: Jocks and Burnouts... and cultural studies

HARWOOD who-is-at UConnVM.UConn.Edu
Wed, 03 Jan 96 04:23:43 EST

>I've been reading Penelope Eckert's Jocks and Burnouts... and would like
>to know if there's someone out there who's also interested in the book, or
>in studies of youth culture, esp. in working class schools.

Angel, you may have heard of Paul Willis' >Learning to labour: How working
class kids get working class jobs<? It's actually quite interesting, and
speaks very much to the issue of "resistance cultures" among youth...

Good luck.

Robin