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mediation, dependency, and the goals of development
Author(s) -
WELLS MIRIAM J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.4.02a00090
Subject(s) - mediation , dependency (uml) , linkage (software) , contingency , articulation (sociology) , sociology , socioeconomic status , political science , politics , social science , epistemology , law , computer science , biochemistry , philosophy , demography , software engineering , chemistry , population , gene
Despite the recent interest in intermediary roles and structures as a focus for inquiry into the articulation between societal levels, the impact of mediation on programs of socioeconomic development is unclear. Two divergent but similarly typological views of mediation dominate the literature. This article argues that a clear, comparative understanding of the relationship between mediation and development requires replacement of prevailing typological approaches with an analysis of linkage mechanisms that function under specified conditions and with variable outcomes. Using case material from a federally sponsored cooperative development program in California, a contingency model of mediation is proposed that analyzes differential impacts on development, [political anthropology, mediation, dependency, ethnicity, rural development]