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cultural lag

the hypothesis that social problems and conflicts are due to the failure of social institutions to keep pace with technological change. This hypothesis is based upon the assumption of TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM and is associated with neoevolutionary theories of social change. The term was first used by Ogburn (1964). See also MODERNIZATION, TECHNOLOGY, FUNCTIONALISM, NEOEVOLUTIONISM.
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I want to draw your attention today to what I perceive as a cultural lag in thinking about the objectives of economic policy.
This happens due to cultural lag" that is a situation in which all aspects of culture do not change simultaneously.
These are the labor surplus model, with its close association with dependency theory, on the one hand, and the cultural lag model on the other hand.
Regarding their earlier data, Crabb and Bielawski (1994) suggested that the disconnect between unchanging representations in children's books and changing labor patterns may have been symptomatic of a cultural lag (Ogburn, 1964).
The term "cultural lag" generally refers to the idea that culture takes
They are: cultural lag, the risk aversion of politicians, and the rightward movement of the Republican Party.
Aiming to describe the collective Iraqi psyche, the text settles on three major themes: the conflict between nomadism and urbanism and the maintenance of nomadic values in both rural and urban settings; cultural lag between prior customs, values, traditions, and group loyalties and those that accompany modernity; and the "double character" of Iraqi society caught between contradictory value systems.
The key to overcoming the cultural lag and resistance to such efforts is persistence.
Implicit in FitzGerald's analysis is a cultural lag model whereby inexorable socio-economic processes of some force cause Irish to retreat steadily from the Dublin Pale and the Ulster Plantation ever westwards to its last stand in a western Gaeltacht or to its inevitable extinction even there.
The accompanying concept of an authoritarian cultural lag holds that changing from an authoritarian to a democratic one will be a lengthy process.
Many of the essayists posit that the Irish people's current social and personal malaise results from a "cultural lag" between out-moded, restrictive norms and new, expansive possibilities.
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