This analysis investigates the proposition that disarticulation explains the effects of dependency and techno-economic heritage on social development. The results show that disarticulation does not act as a major intervening or mediating structure between dependency and social development, nor does it account for the effects of techno-economic heritage on social development. Disarticulation is found to have a modest curvilinear effect on social development and may act as a contextual variable that enhances rather than mediates the effects of dependency on social development.
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