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Cultural Transmission

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Cultural transmission is the way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and norms of their culture, carried by both formal and informal education.

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A new hire's onboarding teaches the written job procedures and, in the same sessions, transmits an unstated norm about which coworkers to defer to.

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Cultural transmission occurs whether or not a curriculum names it as a goal.