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Is the theory of cultural lag valid in present times? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Social Change in Modern Society

William Fielding Ogburn (Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature, 1922) argued that material culture changes faster than the adaptive non-material culture of law, custom and value, and that the interval of maladjustment between them is cultural lag. A century later the interval has lengthened and its costs have risen. Whether that makes…

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