personal dependence

Geographic isolation from previous relationships increases personal dependence on the nuclear family unit and can lead to power unbalances within the household.

The maraboutic and taalibe (a disciple or a marabout or student in a Qur'anic school) relationship Senegal is essentially a relationship of personal dependence.

The contrast between the total but impersonal dependence of the proletariat and the personal dependence of the slave was an idea which Marx was to continue to develop in most of his later work.

What the Norman Conquest did was not to change all at once allodial into feudal tenure, but to complete the association of territorial with personal dependence in a state of society already prepared for it.

Its basic unit, the one-family household, was both a patriarchal autocracy and a microcosm of the sort of society which the bourgeoisie as a class (or its theoretical spokesmen) denounced and destroyed: a hierarchy of personal dependence.