Perception of Legitimate Authority is when people believe that the others are in control of a given situation and are at a higher level of informed about given situation. This then makes a path of least resistance for the masses to follow, the masses then being the bulk of the population. This all begins when we are children. We are constantly instructed to respect our elders and it appears at that age and point of view, that everyone is an elder. Spending the first years of development this is a training that does not get noticed or understood. At some point the young children grow into young adults and almost without knowledge the child begins to look at the same people they once did as authority. Authority of what is cool and what is “in”.
The norm then is the perception that a young child has developed. Developing a skill at such a young age with little more than luck as an authority leads to what is common in most area populations. You not only find “clicks” and styles that seem isolated to other areas but you also find ways of thinking as in morals and ethics also vary from area to area. With such a local situation it becomes easy for insiders or persons in the “authoritative” role during that situation, at that moment in time, can influence the onlookers, or masses to bending in most any logical or even semi-logical directions be they founded or not.
All of the bias and understanding as we know it, is based on an accidental knowledge gained as a child. Social normality is based on an independently developed, unguided rule a child was never
