Question or obey?
The word authority stands for the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. In the persuasion world, that definition translates into three symbols: titles, clothing and trapping. Titles refers to r or Professor, clothing to a police uniform or an army greens and trapping to any object that the person owns. In this paper, I will provide four different examples of authority, when I used those symbols to have someone comply with me or when someone uses them on me. The first example is the title that I have at my work. I work at the SCRC and I got a promotion from being a student worker to a staff member; when that happened, on my badge, instead of having written down student worker, now it says …show more content…
I was part of a youth group back in Brazil during my high school years; the leaders of that group, always wore a colored necklace that represented which group they were taking care of. If you wore the green one, you took care of freshmans, a red one was sophomores, yellow was juniors and white as seniors. Myself being a senior and a leader had to wear the white one. One day, we had an event at my school, and different youth groups joined up; I forgot to wear my necklace and this guy that was wearing a green necklace started telling me what to do. He did not know me, he did not know that I was also a leader, but owing that green necklace put him in a position of authority. Regardless of his actions, at the end of the day, I was the one that had more authority over him, because I owned the white …show more content…
I worked as a tour guide at a soccer stadium and we wore neon yellow vests. That vest gave me the power to go everywhere at anytime during the matches. Did I do that? No, because I was guiding people to their seats and giving them directions about where to go, but that vest gave me a sense of authority over those soccer fans. I had the ability to go anywhere, while they could not go. Another reason would be that, as I was the one wearing the vest, automatically meant that I had more knowledge about the stadium, resulting people to look at the with different
The word authority stands for the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. In the persuasion world, that definition translates into three symbols: titles, clothing and trapping. Titles refers to r or Professor, clothing to a police uniform or an army greens and trapping to any object that the person owns. In this paper, I will provide four different examples of authority, when I used those symbols to have someone comply with me or when someone uses them on me. The first example is the title that I have at my work. I work at the SCRC and I got a promotion from being a student worker to a staff member; when that happened, on my badge, instead of having written down student worker, now it says …show more content…
I was part of a youth group back in Brazil during my high school years; the leaders of that group, always wore a colored necklace that represented which group they were taking care of. If you wore the green one, you took care of freshmans, a red one was sophomores, yellow was juniors and white as seniors. Myself being a senior and a leader had to wear the white one. One day, we had an event at my school, and different youth groups joined up; I forgot to wear my necklace and this guy that was wearing a green necklace started telling me what to do. He did not know me, he did not know that I was also a leader, but owing that green necklace put him in a position of authority. Regardless of his actions, at the end of the day, I was the one that had more authority over him, because I owned the white …show more content…
I worked as a tour guide at a soccer stadium and we wore neon yellow vests. That vest gave me the power to go everywhere at anytime during the matches. Did I do that? No, because I was guiding people to their seats and giving them directions about where to go, but that vest gave me a sense of authority over those soccer fans. I had the ability to go anywhere, while they could not go. Another reason would be that, as I was the one wearing the vest, automatically meant that I had more knowledge about the stadium, resulting people to look at the with different