Chefs Are Socialized Through Culinary School

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Kitchen actors do not follow normal societal action guidelines. Bosses are allowed to openly call their worker names while workers are expected to continue working even when their physical health are compromised. As a result, aspiring chefs have to learn how to act specifically in kitchens, or in other words, engage in secondary socialization to learn the kitchen rules. Chefs are socialized through different institutions; some are socialized through culinary school while others are socialized through restaurants. This paper will focus exclusively on how chefs are socialized through culinary school. In Jonathan Dixon’s Beaten, Seared, and Sauced
: On Becoming A Chef at the Culinary Institute of America, Dixon shows that individuals are socialized