CULTURE LAG

CULTURELAG

definition and example

What is Culture Lag?

Culture lag

Definition:

• Culture lag refers to the fact that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, resulting in social problems.

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Diagram of Cultural Lag

Speed is Faster

Material Culture

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Non-material Culture

Speed is Slower

Cultural Lag

culture lag

another definition

• When Non-Material culture does not adjust itself readily to the material changes it falls behind and the result is a lag between the two. This lag between Non-Material and Material culture has been called Cultural Lag by William Ogburn.

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FUTURISTIC

TECHNOLOGY

Example

Stem cells

It has been proven in the research that stem cells are very effective and beneficial in curing several diseases. But society consideres it to be unethical as obtaining stem cell from fetus is not considered moral. And henceforth do not get interest in this activity.

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