Originally Sociology a disparity between a society's conventions, institutions, or cultural practices and changing social conditions or situations, especially one resulting from technological advances; (now also) any delay between a cultural change or development and its wider dissemination; also as a mass noun.
Origin
1920s.
Definition of cultural lag in US English:
cultural lag
noun
Originally Sociology a disparity between a society's conventions, institutions, or cultural practices and changing social conditions or situations, especially one resulting from technological advances; (now also) any delay between a cultural change or development and its wider dissemination; also as a mass noun.