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