Cultural lag

Cultural lag refers tois the thesis that culture tends to lag behind technology, and that this lag is at the root of many of the world's most pressing problems. The thesis was first formulated explicitly by the American sociologist William Fielding Ogburn (1886-1959).^[1]

cultural evolution | cultural persistence | differential progress

Cultural lag refers to the thesis that culture tends to lag behind technology, and that this lag is at the root of many of the world's most pressing problems. The thesis was first formulated explicitly by the American sociologist William Fielding Ogburn (1886-1959).^[1]

Further reading

Romero Moñivas, Jesús (2007) Cultural lag, in George Ritzer (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

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   Ogburn, William Fielding (1923) Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature, New York: B. W. Huebsch.

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Cultural lag isrefers to the thesis that culture tends to lag behind technology, and that this lag is at the root of many of the world's most pressing problems.

Cultural lag is thesis that culture tends to lag behind technology, and that this lag is at the root of many of the world's most pressing problems.