Cultural lag is 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.
Related entries
cultural evolution | cultural persistence | differential progress
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Ogburn, William Fielding (1923) Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature, New York: B. W. Huebsch.