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Discuss legitimacy of authority as an explanation for obedience. (16 marks)
Legitimacy of authority is when a person obeys the orders of another person because they perceive the other person as a legitimate authority figure and this is because of the visible symbols of status and power such as uniforms or badges. A setting can also be a visible symbol such as a lab setting allows a scientist to be viewed as a legitimate authority figure who has the power to give commands. The strength of this explanation is that it is supported by evidence. In Milgram's variation, he studied how location affects obedience and he found that obedience dropped from 65% to 47.5% when he changed the location from Yale University to a run-down office block this is because the location is not legitimate and therefore the experimenter's order has less of an impact. Another research done by Bickman shows that people are more likely to obey the orders of a person who is wearing a guard uniform than a person who is wearing ordinary clothing. Therefore this shows that uniform reflects social power and allows an authority figure to influence the behaviour of a person, so this is a reliable explanation of obedience.
However, there can be dispositional factors that can affect obedience such as the authoritarian personality. This is a dispositional explanation of obedience, suggesting obedience is an internal trait such as personality rather than a situational factor. People with authoritarian personalities are more likely to obey authority as they have extreme respect for those with high status, they have strict conventional views and they see the poor as inferior. This is due to the harsh and rigid parenting and the authoritarian personality can be measured using the F-scale. However, the F-scale is a self-report method which may mean it is flawed as there can be response bias as people pick the answer they think is "correct" and therefore may be incorrectly identified.