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Write short note on the following from a sociological perspective: Theory of Cultural Lag – Ogburn and Nimkoff.

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  • Social Change in Modern Society

Cultural lag is the interval of maladjustment during which the non-material parts of a culture have not yet adapted to a change in its material parts. William Fielding Ogburn (1886–1959) coined the term in Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature (1922), and it entered the sociological canon through A Handbook of Sociology…

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