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单词 cultural lag
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cultural lag
cultural lag n. Originally Sociology a disparity between a society's conventions, institutions, or cultural practices and changing social conditions or situations, esp. one resulting from technological advances; (now also) any delay between a cultural change or development and its wider dissemination; also as a mass noun.
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1922 W. F. Ogburn Social Change iv. vi. 280 If the material culture should continue to accumulate and change with increasing rapidity, it would seem that the cultural lags will pile up even more than at the present time.
1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 205 To a certain extent these mixed groups reduced the cultural lag somewhat, and many white musicians by the mid-forties were fluent in the new jazz language.
1999 G. H. Elder Children of Great Depression viii. 222 In these developments we see the making of a cultural lag in which unequal rates of change produce strain on the interconnected social, economic, and cultural units of society.
2005 Globe & Mail (Nexis) 23 May a13 Cultural lag is not just about machinery and inventions, it is also about ideas.
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