 From 1994-1996, Bucholtz studied another social category, "Nerds," using a California high school in the San Francisco Bay Area as her field site.She initially presented her work on Nerd girls at the 1997 International Conference on Language and Social Psychology.Bucholtz positions the "Nerd" as a separate and distinct community of practice set in opposition to the Burnouts, Jocks and In-betweens