Cultural lag, a lethal drag

The Globe and Mail

Cultural lag is the term first coined by anthropologists to describe the gap between an invention and society's ability to actually use it. It took about 50 years for the typewriter to displace the pen. When electricity first came to my father's Cape Breton village in the 1930s, it was viewed with distrust and adopted by few. But cultural lag is not just about machinery and inventions, it is also about ideas. >> continue

PS: The Cultural Gap - also an explanation for the reluctant active use of the internet by academics?

SEE ALSO

John F. Kraus: Cultural Lag or Cultural Drag. The Impact of Resource Depletion on Social Change in Post-Modern Society

Scott London: Understanding Change: The Dynamics of Social Transformation

Culture Change: An Introduction to the Processes
and Consequences of Culture Change

Social Change (Anthropology) - overview by Intute social science