Still, their function is presumably to transmit a shared symbolic language, an esprit de corps, a sense of belonging and differentiation akin, mutatis mutandis, to that transmitted by, say, IBM to its recruits.

XREF: Parallels corporate onboarding and culture-building practices, echoing how organizations transmit esprit de corps to recruits.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 341