19 Youval Rotman where at least two entities are dependent one on the other, in a different or similar way. This conceptual distinction between dependency, interdependency and independency is not a given, but reflects the way in which the human mind perceives relationships in general, whether human or not, individual, social, economic relationships or other. In a similar way, independency is defined as the state of being non-dependent on something or someone. This concept is normally perceived in our modern mind as a developmental stage, economic, political, psychological development for example. Modern theories of the social sciences even define independency as the objective of developmental processes. All this adds a moral aspect to the way we define human relationships and relationships in general: the state of being dependent is perceived negatively, while the state of independency is an objective, and often is equated with freedom, i.e. to be free from being dependent. This perspective has oriented the scholarship and the research about phenomena of dependency, in particular in the social sciences, towards perceiving them within a sociopolitical context of power relations. In its most general definition, dependency is a form of relationship between at least two entities of which one is dependent in some way on the other. Nature and the universe in general are composed of infinite relationships of dependency, in which human dependencies constitute particular types related to forms of human organization. The same is also true in regard to interdependency and independency. The first is a dyadic relationship of dependency DEPENDENCY – INTERDEPENDENCY – INDEPENDENCY
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