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<p>e.g. parents and children.</p>

<p><big>History</big></p>
<p>The overall concept of agency has existed since the <a href="page.php?w=Age_of_Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> where there was debate over whether human freedom was expressed through instrumental rationality or moral and norm-based action. <a href="page.php?w=John_Locke">John Locke</a> argued in favor of freedom being based on self-interest. His rejection of the binding of tradition and the concept of the <a href="page.php?w=social_contract">social contract</a> led to the conception of agency</p><p>
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