Burned Like a Tattoo
High School Social Categories and `American Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Ortner (0000-0003-3391-9403, Columbia University, corresponding author), Sherry B Ortner (Columbia University) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-148 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138102003002001 |
| OpenAlex | W2034385955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article is part of a larger ethnographic and ethnohistorical project on social class in the US, as tracked through the lives of my own high school graduating class, the Class of `58 of Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey. In this article I focus on the underlying logic of high school social/prestige categories, and on the durability of those categories over the course of the 20th century. I argue for the centrality of both social class and what Americans call `personality' in the production and reproduction of those categories. I go on to suggest that the durability of the high school social categories may be explained by the fact that their underlying logic is nothing other than the logic of hegemonic `American culture' as a whole
Centrality · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Ethnography · Hegemony · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Prestige · Reproduction · Social capital · Social class · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2017 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |