Essay On Cultural Lag

Cultural lag is the thought that culture takes time to catch up to the new innovations and technology. This lag causes social conflicts and it takes a while for society to catch up and adjust. Ogburn had defined the term Cultural Lag, as a term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations.

Our Pakistani society as explained in Ogburn’s arguments is experiencing Cultural Lag. We in our argument will take a few examples from our society that would display the concept of Cultural Lag. Medical technology is being used to keep people’s bodies functioning long after they would otherwise have been considered dead. This raises cultural questions about when life ends, who has the right to end artificial life support, etc. The development

If I take a medical example, I would better elaborate my concept of Cultural Lag. A medical community involves certain situations in which we use technology as a means of checking up on the past. Let’s just say I am the patient and I had a surgery far away from my home. After returning home my parents sent picture of my healing wound to my surgeon to ensure my medical fitness. While on one hand this can be a valuable tool but at the same time the consequences of using technology in that way have not been determined. These consequences could be that to what level the doctor liable when checking on my progress only via pictures is using a mobile device. How can I possibly trust such a method to ensure my health? And what are the laws of privacy that these pictures are confidential and will remain within the doctor’s room. The advancement in technology and coping up with modern innovations creates space for Cultural Lag best shown in this

They have never been as quick or energetic as young people, but societies have often valued them for their accumulated skills, knowledge, and wisdom. The same technological progress that enables our society to keep an ever-larger percentage of old folks’ bodies going has simultaneously reduced the value of the minds within those bodies. The use of new technology gadgets like computers and tabs leads to less use of human minds. Start by considering factual knowledge, an old person will certainly know more than a young person, but can any person, young or old, know as much as Google and Wikipedia? Why would a young person ask an elder the answer to a fact question that can be solved authoritatively in 10 seconds via phone or computers using Internet? Here we can quote one other example, My Dad who is a wise and educated man doesn’t know how to use an ATM card, either he enters an inappropriate pin card number or it gets stuck in the machine, and asks for my help. Another answer would be to develop obvious wisdom. Unfortunately, the young people who are most in need of an elder’s wisdom are the least likely to realize it. Only a small percentage of old people throughout history have managed to maintain high status and value purely through wisdom and due to these advancement in technology they lack behind and are unable to cope up with new