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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CULTURAL LAG

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Cultural lag is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CULTURAL LAG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cultural lag

The term cultural lag refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and that social problems and conflicts are caused by this lag. Subsequently, cultural lag does not only apply to this idea only, but also relates to theory and explanation. It helps by identifying and explaining social problems and also to predict future problems. As explained by James W. Woodward, when the material conditions change, changes are occasioned in the adaptive culture, but these changes in the adaptive culture do not synchronize exactly with the change in the material culture, this delay is the culture lag. The term was coined by sociologist William F. Ogburn in his 1922 work Social change with respect to culture and original nature. His theory of cultural lag suggests that a period of maladjustment occurs when the non-material culture is struggling to adapt to new material conditions. This resonates with ideas of technological determinism, in that it presupposes that technology has independent effects on society at large.

Definition of cultural lag in the English dictionary

The definition of cultural lag in the dictionary is the difference in the rate of change between two parts of a culture.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CULTURAL LAG

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cultural
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culture lag
culture medium
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culture vulture
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cultured

WORDS THAT END LIKE CULTURAL LAG

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Synonyms and antonyms of cultural lag in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cultural lag» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CULTURAL LAG

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The translations of cultural lag from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cultural lag» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

文化落后
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

retraso cultural
570 millions of speakers

English

cultural lag
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सांस्कृतिक अंतराल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تأخر الثقافي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

культурное отставание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atraso cultural
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাংস্কৃতিক ল্যাগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

décalage culturel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lag budaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cultural lag
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

文化的な遅れ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

문화 지연
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Budaya sithik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lag văn hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலாச்சார பின்னடைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सांस्कृतिक अंतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kültürel gecikme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ritardo culturale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

opóźnienie kulturowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

культурне відставання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lag cultural
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολιτιστική υστέρηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kulturele lag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kulturell eftersläpning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kulturelle etterslep
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CULTURAL LAG»

The term «cultural lag» is used very little and occupies the 153.197 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cultural lag

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULTURAL LAG»

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Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism
Introduction Now that Veblen's theory of cultural lag has been set forth in its historical context, it will be compared with that of several of his eminent contemporaries. It played an important role earlier in the century not only in the work of Veblen, ...
Rick Tilman, 2007
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Essentials of Sociology
No culture remains isolated forever, and none remains forever unchanged. Although cultural diversity and change often help societies cope with existing problems, they can also create new problems. Two such problems are cultural lag and ...
David Brinkerhoff, Suzanne Ortega, Rose Weitz, 2013
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Sociology: Your Compass for a New World
Robert Brym, John Lie. veloped countries because religion remains a stronger force here than in any other highly developed nation (see Chapter 16,“Religion”). Cultural Lag The WVS findings also say something interesting about cultural lag,  ...
Robert Brym, John Lie, 2006
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Fundamentals of Sociology
CULTURAL LAG In the process of cultural growth one often comes across the phenomena of cultural lag. The word lag connotes crippled movement. Hence, cultural lag means the faltering of one aspect of culture behind another. For example ...
Rajendra Kumar Sharma, 1996
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Invitation to Social and Cultural Anthropology
CULTURAL LAG The word 'Lag' connotes crippled movement. Hence, cultural Lag means the faltering of one aspect of culture behind another. For example, if either the material or the non-material aspects of culture were to remain behind the ...
K. N. Dash, 2004
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Cyborgism: Cyborgs, Performance and Society
He argued that the rapid change in material conditions had resulted in numerous examples of what he termed “cultural lag.” Ogburn coined the phrase "cultural lag " to describe what happens when related parts of a culture react to change in ...
David Kreps, 2007
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Corporate Pharaohs: A Vicious Circle of Globalization
Some parts of culture move faster than others, and in the process, other parts tend to lag behind, hence their ancillary focus on cultural lag that was implied in the Veblenian framework, but was explicitly stated by Ogburn. “The cultural lag ...
Richard Brinkman, 2013
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Dictionary of Medical Sociology
26 CULTURAL LAG sources) or societal (quality and accessibility of medical services). (See Catalano 1989; Kaplan 1989; Kessler and Wortman 1989). CULTURAL LAG The delay in time between changes in one realm of culture, such as ...
William C. Cockerham, Ferris Joseph Ritchey, 1997
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The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology
The thesis of ''cultural lag'' formulated by the North American sociologist William F . Ogburn can be considered among the earliest sociological attempts to explain social change from social-cultural premises andnotpsycho-biological ones.
George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan, 2010
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Strategies for Cultural Change
(1984: 5) The above examples demonstrate how the concept of cultural lag can provide useful insights into the issues of organizational effectiveness and survival . The notion of 'lag' implies that in order to have an 'adjusted' organization all ...
S. Paul Bate, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CULTURAL LAG»

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Alamon: The feminization of fatherhood
And yet, there remains a cultural lag in the appreciation of the changing contexts of fatherhood at present. When mothers leave their families to ... «Sun.Star, Jun 15»
2
A patient's eye view of the digital doctor
Michael has long thought that in the UK and Europe there is a cultural lag in adoption of new technologies, but believes that European patients ... «PMLiVE, Jun 15»
3
Obama's War Machine Inches Forward
Why the unreasoning fear, therefore, the political-cultural lag from the past? I cannot answer that, except to indicate the evident irrationality—or ... «CounterPunch, Jun 15»
4
Google exec: Humans will be hybrids by 2030
@Norseman New tools are never inherently evil, despite what cultural lag prompts us to think. The only thing certain is that we have no real ... «CNET, Jun 15»
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From friends of the Court: Same-sex marriage leads to fertility decline
Experts on marriage have frequently and correctly noted that such major social changes operate with a “cultural lag” that often requires several ... «MercatorNet, Apr 15»
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Rick Perlstein's Descent into Intellectual Hackery
With this, he displays a cultural lag. His article could easily, with some adjustments in references, have been written in 1951, when the ultimate ... «National Review Online, Mar 15»
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Bill to legalize medical marijuana introduced in the House
"Legislators rarely lead, they generally follow. I guess it's called cultural lag...Eventually, people in Congress start catching up." Cohen and Rep. «CBS News, Mar 15»
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The life of Mr Lee Kuan Yew
Intellectually I agreed with (Goh) Keng Swee (Singapore's second deputy Prime Minister from 1973 to 1984) that overcoming this cultural lag ... «inSing.com News, Mar 15»
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As the economy changes, work skills are in flux: David Brooks
One gets the impression we're confronted by a giant cultural lag. The economy emphasizes a new generation of skills, but our vocabulary ... «MassLive.com, Mar 15»
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David Brooks: Our life skills must be evolving
One gets the impression we're confronted by a giant cultural lag. The economy emphasizes a new generation of skills, but our vocabulary ... «Albany Times Union, Mar 15»

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