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Explain the relevance of the idea of ‘cultural lag’ in understanding social change.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Social Change in Modern Society

William Fielding Ogburn (1886–1959) introduced cultural lag in Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature (1922). Its value is not that it explains why change begins — it does not — but that it explains why change is uneven, why it brings disorder before order, and where reform must intervene.

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