Practice question · Multiple choice
An MBA student copies executive dress before holding any such job. Why does anticipatory socialisation happen before the role does?
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- Ask what the behaviour is FOR if the role has not started.
- Who is meant to see it?
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D. Because adopting a group's markers is how admission is won
Why
The signal helps produce the outcome it anticipates. This is also why it reproduces advantage: knowing which markers to adopt is itself learned from proximity to the group.
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