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The Workplace as Agent

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Workplaces socialize adults into occupational norms, vocabularies, hierarchies, and standards of competence specific to the work.

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A new hire learns which rules are enforced, which are formalities, and who actually decides things.

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Most workplace socialization is informal, unwritten, and learned by watching other people work.