Cutural lag

Cultural lag is an important theory introduced by Ogburn, a famous sociologist. Ogburn proposed culture as having two parts, one is material and other is non-material culture. All material substances are regarded as material culture such as computer, factory and machine etc. on the other hand all adaptive culture is non-material culture such as education, customs, ritual and morals etc. According to Ogburn people are more interested toward the change in material culture compared to the change in non-material culture. And that’s why material culture usually changes more rapidly than the non-material culture. it is believed that the change in material culture has to be balanced with the perspective change in the non-material culture, otherwise the society will face severe imbalance due to that gap. This gap is known as cultural lag. So it would be best to try to minimize the cultural lag. The more a society can minimize the cultural lag, more the society is developed.