CH 4. Interdependence

I have never really thought about the concept of interdependence in the terms of school or work. The author uses the example of a student refusing to recognize a professors legitimacy and how this would play a harmful role in the students success in the class because the student is wholly dependent on the professor, and the professor is minimally effected. I now see how this applies to my own life, especially when I wasn't too fond of a teacher and my parents would tell me it doesnt really matter how I feel, they still hold the grades. I see how this would play in communication theories because it would be easier for both parties to depend on each other rather than one solely having an upper hand. The problem with interdependence is the lack of knowledge of a "whole" group and that can cause falter in the amount of success as a whole. While one group has knowledge of their department without even so much a murmur of another it is hard to be that whole, leading of course into the tragedy of the commons.