Answer: Parents
Explanation: The story Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza is an autobiography of the author, Ernesto and the circumstances surrounding his early childhood in Jalcocotán and migration with his mother from his home town, to Sacramento due to impending Mexican Revolution and then a white neighborhood after his mother remarries.
In Jalcocotán, Ernesto describes the culture of the small rural group having a the tradition that adults, neighbors, relations and extended family members take part in correcting a child making children raised in Jalco to be constantly alert knowing that if they did something extremely bad, thier parents would be notified which could lead to purnishment.
----> By using "legitimate bosses" in the extract from the passage, the author was referring to --One's parents.
