Doctors patients relations were subordinate relations.
Taken together, the actions in Berlin demonstrate anew Germany's increasing willingness in a post-cold-war world to act like other countries, subordinating relations with allies for the sake of national interests — and even for domestic political reasons.
Accountability in practice is often underpinned by a Principal-Agent logic: based on lead-subordinate roles, relations are structured to incentivize Agents to act in the interests of the Principal or lead [ 3].
In his own interest he scrupulously maintained a subordinate role in relation to Augustus, but he felt himself inferior to no one else.
Similarly, a plurality of masculinities - complicit, marginalized and subordinate operate in relation to hegemonic masculinity [ 9].
Regardless, what is poignant in some homeopaths' accounts is a perception that the new regulations may secure for the homeopathic group a subordinate sociopolitical position in relation to the naturopathic profession.
However, our results show that this negotiation takes place not only between formal managers on one side and practicing physicians with no formal manager responsibilities on the other, but also between managers, both laterally (between managers on the same level) and vertically (in relation to subordinate managers).
Compared to mentoring relations where a subordinate party can achieve equal status, relations of patronage tend to reinforce inequality (Stein 1984: 34).
Mr. Méndez-Santiago, according to the federal complaint, had "physical and/or sexual relations with subordinate female employees in his office, while plaintiff had to sit at her desk directly outside his office".
