I think cultural lag is a very interesting topic. Like it stated in the video, cultural lag is due to a phenomenon when our immaterial culture conflicts with our material culture. When new advancements are made in society it's sometimes hard for us a nation to respond right away with an appropriate "legal" answer. Cultural lag is seen everywhere including our nation, our sate and even in our own communities. I also thought it was interesting because I see cultural lag happening almost every day. In this generation new technology is advancing by the hour and this requires us as a population to adapt. Obviously this is a hard thing to do and I think it will only get harder the more advanced we become. MacD001
I agree with you that cultural lag is seen everywhere. It's crazy how much you realize that it is happening all around us when we actually open our eyes to it. And it is scary what the outcomes could be from the effects of it. At the rate of which technology is being advanced cultures will never catch up with the problems new technology will bring.
I like how you brought up the legal aspect. It is hard for the government create and imply laws to keep up with all of the technology. I and most of the others also agree with your comment on it happening almost everyday, but I feel like you might want to rethink your last comment. Maybe the government with change things up with the new election. I would say it is unknown. Yatchy001
I agree with you, so many different things are being invented daily, as soon as the newest best phone comes out, the next day an even better one is made and comes out. our population in this day and age has no choice but to adapt to the changes. GRUNT001
Cultural lag is a very real phenomenon all over the world. It has a large effect on many societies, whether it is a material culture that is too far advanced with their technology, or whether it is a nonmaterial culture that refuses to move forward for a period of time. A nonmaterial culture could refuse to move forward for many reasons. Sometimes they just like the simplicity of the way and style of how they live their lives. Sometimes it even goes against their religion. This is happening so close to us that we may not even realize it. The lagging of adaptation to technology could be very dangerous or even harmful to a society. Our rapid advancement of technology is too much for the people of our world to handle at such a fast pace. We have the intelligence to advance the technology, but we do not have the intelligence to adapt to it and handle what the technology will do to our world.
I totally agree with you. Many countries, if not all suffer from cultural lag – whether it’s a material or a nonmaterial culture. Even I didn’t really realize it was happening to us until we starting discussing it in class. Also, awesome last sentence… that’s a really great way of wording it. Caffeinated001
Cultural lag is a very interesting concepts that explains the gaps within our society. To be honest, I had never really thought about the concept of cultural lag until today. Cultural lag is when material aspects of society move greater than the pace of culture. Cultural lag can be cause by new technologies, revolutionary ideas, or other new cultural norms. This lag creates a divide with our larger society, courts, colleges, and homes. Often times our conservative laws fall behind new liberal ideas. This is seemingly apparent when it comes to issues like stem cell research, same-se marriage, and in vitro fertilization. I think the main resistance for cultural lag in America is the frame of mind, rather than the speed of expansion. I believe Americans are very traditional in their beliefs and are quick to judge others that have characteristics that are different than their own. I believe as a society we need to move towards a progressive style of thinking that cultures acceptance and free thinking. A new optimistic cultural attitude will help curb the effects of cultural lag. FireFan001
I agree with you. it is a good thing in a way to have rapid changes simply because its helping the world express how they feel and what they like to see and do. If people didn't share their own creativity with others, we'd lose all of our out of the box thinkers that help keep the world going through advanced technology. We also do need to learn how to control to where it is manageable not only for us but to other culture's understanding. Pineapples001
Cultural Lag is a very recurrent thing but goes almost unnoticed. After hearing the women speak on this makes me more aware of how it is constantly happening and going to continue as well as change. We may be behind now and constantly trying to catch up, but if we make this known all around the world we can maybe equal things out. The final election may have a significant effect on this. We may have to “go against” or find a loophole in the laws in order to find more research and even the playing field. The government may have to give less qualified people a chance to generate ideas considering they are the ones that is is most involved with. There is also cultural lag that cannot be stopped or fixed and is not a helpful thing to even the playing field out. I would say that would be black market and things of the sort. yatchy001
I totally agree with you that if people become aware of cultural lag it will make it easier to lessen this lag. You said that the government may need to give less qualified people more of a voice when it comes to advancements in technology and that is a good point. Like with medical technical advancements, people aren't very informed about what exactly the technology is, and so they are less willing to accept it. However, if the people who are going to be most affected by the technology also have a firm knowledge of that technology they will probably be more willing to accept it. HAL001
I think it was interesting what you said about going against or finding loopholes in the laws. I feel like sometimes that could lead to good possiblilities but also really dangerous too. "Going against the norm" is something that has been constantly happening in today's society and it's left many people confused and even more stuck in this "lag". Today we are still trying to find out who we are as a nation. MacD001
i love the way you said it goes almost unnoticed. This kind of thing happens everyday but i never notice it until i learn the concept about culture lag. This video gave me more information about how i t works and how often it happens everyday. Magnus001
Cultural lag is a very different way to look into this. In the video the lady said that cultural lag is a very common phenomenon. I think that cultural lag is very real all over the world and may be a problem in any parts of the world as well. Some areas of the world are ready to move forward fast and others may not be ready for that to happen. I think many people would be ok with rapid changes and no lag, while others may not be ready for any type of change in the world or their culture. Many people are fine living life day in and day out doing the same thing wanting no change. Change in any cultural can be very difficult and many people may take it well and some may not take it so well, so I think changing slowing over time is best. Most people don’t want to change. But for everything that is rapidly changing fast that creates a big culture lag. GRUNT001
I agree, I think cultural lag is very real all around the world. And, its something we see in the everyday world. I would think kids, and a lot of teens would experience this. Also, someone starting a new job, and someone who is moving from a small city, to a big city. So, I don't really consider this to be a bad thing. In some ways, its a good thing.
I think that there are different kinds of cultural lag, some lagging more than others. For my generation, I think that it is much easier for us to get acclimated to new technology such as phones, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, because my generation has grown up using personal technology and have grown up with these types of technological advances. However, for some reason, it seems that new medical technology is harder for us to grasp, like stem cell research mentioned in the video. This might be because medical technology, like stem cells or test-tube babies are a little harder to understand than the new Apple software. But even with this technology, newer generations will always be getting better at catching up with advances. I think that cultural lag could potentially become less and less apparent, though it will never go away completely. People are to diverse in their ways of thinking to ever make it so technology is perfectly in-sync with society. However, for now, cultural lag greatly affects society. Understanding that cultural lag exists will help us to recognize where society needs to change and where it wants to change, also. HAL001
I completely agree, technological advancements seem to be perfectly fine in our society but as soon as 'test tube babies' gets brought up it is a much more sensitive subject. I believe people think that it is unethical and going against religion when babies are created that way and is causing social conflict for over 20 years. chicagoblackhawks001
I agree. Electronic technology is far easier for the population to keep up with. When people start to talk about invitro, test-tube, or stem cells the listeners tend to close their ears. Sometimes change isn't bad and we need to recognize that. Sometimes change can save lives. We all have to be willing to listen and try to understand. This may help the cultural lag diminish. TennisChamp001
The material things progress faster than the nonmaterialistic things causing what we know as cultural lag. I believe cultural lag exposes what we as humans really consider more important in our lives whether if it is getting an iPhone 7 or paying the house bills. Materialistic things in our culture usually go for the newest phones, laptops, hairstyles, clothing, and etc. Whereas we’ve lost touch of the unmaterialistic things like creativity, beliefs, and values. It’s getting too out of hand now because all of these trends have no true meaning after them. The dumbest thing could be filmed and they trend it and that same day people are quoting it like a movie or a book. Cultural lag also has a huge effect on schools with everyone naturally dividing into different cliques based off of the materialistic things. If you don’t have that new phone or new shirt that came out yesterday, you’re an outcast and no one wants you to sit with them or yet alone be seen with you. This term can either break you or make you in my eyes on whether the materialistic things are more important than your values and opinions, and creativity that we are supposed to embrace about ourselves and how it ties into our culture as a country. Pineapples001
Cultural lag is defined in the book as the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system. We, in the United States had a big cultural lag in the late 90s early 2000s with medical technology advancing to as far as pulling eggs out of a woman’s body and a man’s sperm and combining them and re inserting (in vitro) but you are also able to pick the child’s sex, genetic information, and so much more. A lot of people thought it was unethical and going against religion. A big lag like this in my opinion caused a lot of social conflict. Another, sensitive, more recent cultural lag in my opinion is the transgender community and the new bathroom laws. Older generations seem to not approve of it compared to younger generations, which now is a huge social conflict that which we have not seem to solve yet. chicagoblackhawks001
I like how you brought up a very new example regarding the transgender community and public restroom laws. I find this to be such a prime example of how cultural lag may affect different generations to much greater extents. Being in the younger generation, I can say that most new laws that cause a lot of hype in society, are not at all bothersome to me, as well as most of my fellow peers. I think this will just continually be a pattern as we get older and even more shocking new laws and cultural “issues” develop. Aloha001
Cultural lag is actually a frightening thing to me. It’s so interesting how our technological advancements are allowing us to progress as a society at such a rapid pace, such as gps for example, or google earth, but our society is still having a huge problem with it invading our own privacy. Like it was stated in the video, adaptation to new technology is very difficult for most societies. Yet, how can we ever advance as a society and our culture as a whole if we aren’t growing with these spectacular advancements. Using the example in class of one woman hosting a completely different couple’s baby and who has the rights of being “mom”, it was easy to see how a society would have a panic attack. In just in our small class, there were extreme contrasting views. Some felt this scientific technological advancement was just that alone and a great tool for couples in need of help in that department. Yet, others felt the woman hosting the baby had full rights to be the baby’s caregiver, regardless of any prior contracts. I found this interesting that a question on parental rights I had previously believed was a no brainer to nearly everyone, was a concept so different to someone else. Aloha001
I like your statement on how we cannot fully grow as a society and culture as a whole if we are not growing with the advancements. Cultures may need to take time to accept and understand new technological advancements but in the long run it is so important to eventually come to an conclusion or else there would not be any growth and our society would be at a standstill. Also I completely agree that the example in class was an eyeopener on how people really do view different topics so differently. Sleepyhead001
First off, I respect how real your answer is. The fact that you flat out say that cultural lag frightens you gets real respect. I like how you point out the invasion of privacy. Invasion of privacy and big brother are a huge subject of cultural lag. In today’s world we can have any information at our fingertips without anyone’s consent. What are the boundaries when it comes to technology and privacy? FireFan001
Cultural lag is an astounding phenomenon that definitely surrounds us as well as other countries around the world today. In all honestly, before today’s class discussion and watching this video I had never really given the topic much thought. The best way to define cultural lag is by saying that it is when material aspects of society move at quicker speeds than the pace of its surrounding culture. This can be cause by things such as new technologies, revolutionary ideas, or even the development of a new cultural normality. Cultural lag then creates problems and divisions between things such as our colleges, courts, society, and even families/friends. The example Professor White used in class was really eye-opening to how bad cultural lag really is. Something I believed to be the obvious answer as to “who’s child is it?” ended up not being the opposite answer of what I thought it would be. I believe that there are, unfortunately, many years until our culture and laws catch up to the technology we have today – not even talking about how much technology will advance further within that time frame. Caffeinated001
cultural lag is a phenomenon we encounter frequently in recent year. When technology development become faster and faster. Today's class discussion a lot of example about it and show that even in the small class like ours, we still have different opinions in the same question. culture lag sometimes remind us how fast our world changed. That also reminds me the reason we learn about sociology. through the open mind and understand the different from different view can make us understand this change and think about how we gonna deal with it. Magnus001
The term “cultural lag” is relatively new to me. I don't recall ever hearing it before discussing it in class. However, the concept is something I am familiar with. In class we debated the topic of in vitro fertilization and tied that into the topic of cultural lag. I found this very interesting and thought it was extremely helpful in grasping the concept of the term. Cultural lag is when a societies nonmaterial culture doesn't develop at the same rate as their material culture does. In this example about in vitro fertilization, the technology has allowed us to put someone else's baby in a woman who isn't the biological mother. With this new advancement, comes many other moral issues. The questions of what really defines motherhood comes into play when there are custody issues in this situation. Societies everywhere change and develop all the time. We are creating new technologies everyday all around the world. With this, we need to be prepared as a people to work together to keep up with these advances. Saur001
Cultural lag is a big part of our society. We can't do certain things because of this lag in our culture. My personal experience with cultural lag is connected with stem cell research or something like it. My father has a bone disease and it skipped me so since I am a carrier of my father's bone disease my children will most likely have it. My goal is to be able to take the diseased part of my baby's chromosomes and replace them with healthy chromosomes but because of cultural lag we haven't come this far in our society yet. Rie001
Cultural lag is a huge part of our society today. I had rarely heard the term used in my daily life, so I didn't know what to expect when we started talking about it in depth. I realize now that some of the technology we have is too advanced for some people in society, such as stem cell research. Stem cell research is a huge dispute. Some will say it's "playing God", yet others will say, "why not use the technology we have to better the population?" Where do we go from there? How can we come to a conclusion? Will some of the population be left behind to catch up when they feel ready or will we all move into the future technology as a whole? TennisChamp001
I personally think cultural lag is understandable in our technological fast moving society because values are constructed and set into our minds over many years and technological advancements are happening everyday. A society’s culture and the people’s beliefs and values cannot change as quickly as the technical advancements occur considering you have believed in something your entire life and suddenly with the changes in culture your beliefs are behind the times so to speak. The video says that cultural lag results in social problems and conflicts. An example is the controversy of when life ends and who has the right to end artificial life support. Medical technology is able to make life last longer than it naturally would and it is hard for people to accept new technology as quickly as it is exposed because it challenges their beliefs. Debates over technological discoveries and advancements cause conflicts until the cultural lag diminishes and a common belief on the advancement is accepted. Sleepyhead001
I think cultural lag is a very interesting topic. Like it stated in the video, cultural lag is due to a phenomenon when our immaterial culture conflicts with our material culture. When new advancements are made in society it's sometimes hard for us a nation to respond right away with an appropriate "legal" answer. Cultural lag is seen everywhere including our nation, our sate and even in our own communities. I also thought it was interesting because I see cultural lag happening almost every day. In this generation new technology is advancing by the hour and this requires us as a population to adapt. Obviously this is a hard thing to do and I think it will only get harder the more advanced we become. MacD001
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that cultural lag is seen everywhere. It's crazy how much you realize that it is happening all around us when we actually open our eyes to it. And it is scary what the outcomes could be from the effects of it. At the rate of which technology is being advanced cultures will never catch up with the problems new technology will bring.
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I like how you brought up the legal aspect. It is hard for the government create and imply laws to keep up with all of the technology. I and most of the others also agree with your comment on it happening almost everyday, but I feel like you might want to rethink your last comment. Maybe the government with change things up with the new election. I would say it is unknown. Yatchy001
DeleteI agree with you, so many different things are being invented daily, as soon as the newest best phone comes out, the next day an even better one is made and comes out. our population in this day and age has no choice but to adapt to the changes.
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Cultural lag is a very real phenomenon all over the world. It has a large effect on many societies, whether it is a material culture that is too far advanced with their technology, or whether it is a nonmaterial culture that refuses to move forward for a period of time. A nonmaterial culture could refuse to move forward for many reasons. Sometimes they just like the simplicity of the way and style of how they live their lives. Sometimes it even goes against their religion. This is happening so close to us that we may not even realize it. The lagging of adaptation to technology could be very dangerous or even harmful to a society. Our rapid advancement of technology is too much for the people of our world to handle at such a fast pace. We have the intelligence to advance the technology, but we do not have the intelligence to adapt to it and handle what the technology will do to our world.
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Your last sentence is profound. So much more to contemplate.....SimplyMe001
DeleteI totally agree with you. Many countries, if not all suffer from cultural lag – whether it’s a material or a nonmaterial culture. Even I didn’t really realize it was happening to us until we starting discussing it in class. Also, awesome last sentence… that’s a really great way of wording it. Caffeinated001
DeleteCultural lag is a very interesting concepts that explains the gaps within our society. To be honest, I had never really thought about the concept of cultural lag until today. Cultural lag is when material aspects of society move greater than the pace of culture. Cultural lag can be cause by new technologies, revolutionary ideas, or other new cultural norms. This lag creates a divide with our larger society, courts, colleges, and homes. Often times our conservative laws fall behind new liberal ideas. This is seemingly apparent when it comes to issues like stem cell research, same-se marriage, and in vitro fertilization. I think the main resistance for cultural lag in America is the frame of mind, rather than the speed of expansion. I believe Americans are very traditional in their beliefs and are quick to judge others that have characteristics that are different than their own. I believe as a society we need to move towards a progressive style of thinking that cultures acceptance and free thinking. A new optimistic cultural attitude will help curb the effects of cultural lag. FireFan001
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. it is a good thing in a way to have rapid changes simply because its helping the world express how they feel and what they like to see and do. If people didn't share their own creativity with others, we'd lose all of our out of the box thinkers that help keep the world going through advanced technology. We also do need to learn how to control to where it is manageable not only for us but to other culture's understanding. Pineapples001
DeleteCultural Lag is a very recurrent thing but goes almost unnoticed. After hearing the women speak on this makes me more aware of how it is constantly happening and going to continue as well as change. We may be behind now and constantly trying to catch up, but if we make this known all around the world we can maybe equal things out. The final election may have a significant effect on this. We may have to “go against” or find a loophole in the laws in order to find more research and even the playing field. The government may have to give less qualified people a chance to generate ideas considering they are the ones that is is most involved with. There is also cultural lag that cannot be stopped or fixed and is not a helpful thing to even the playing field out. I would say that would be black market and things of the sort. yatchy001
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you that if people become aware of cultural lag it will make it easier to lessen this lag. You said that the government may need to give less qualified people more of a voice when it comes to advancements in technology and that is a good point. Like with medical technical advancements, people aren't very informed about what exactly the technology is, and so they are less willing to accept it. However, if the people who are going to be most affected by the technology also have a firm knowledge of that technology they will probably be more willing to accept it. HAL001
DeleteI think it was interesting what you said about going against or finding loopholes in the laws. I feel like sometimes that could lead to good possiblilities but also really dangerous too. "Going against the norm" is something that has been constantly happening in today's society and it's left many people confused and even more stuck in this "lag". Today we are still trying to find out who we are as a nation. MacD001
Deletei love the way you said it goes almost unnoticed. This kind of thing happens everyday but i never notice it until i learn the concept about culture lag. This video gave me more information about how i t works and how often it happens everyday. Magnus001
DeleteCultural lag is a very different way to look into this. In the video the lady said that cultural lag is a very common phenomenon. I think that cultural lag is very real all over the world and may be a problem in any parts of the world as well. Some areas of the world are ready to move forward fast and others may not be ready for that to happen. I think many people would be ok with rapid changes and no lag, while others may not be ready for any type of change in the world or their culture. Many people are fine living life day in and day out doing the same thing wanting no change. Change in any cultural can be very difficult and many people may take it well and some may not take it so well, so I think changing slowing over time is best. Most people don’t want to change. But for everything that is rapidly changing fast that creates a big culture lag.
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I agree, I think cultural lag is very real all around the world. And, its something we see in the everyday world. I would think kids, and a lot of teens would experience this. Also, someone starting a new job, and someone who is moving from a small city, to a big city. So, I don't really consider this to be a bad thing. In some ways, its a good thing.
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I think that there are different kinds of cultural lag, some lagging more than others. For my generation, I think that it is much easier for us to get acclimated to new technology such as phones, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, because my generation has grown up using personal technology and have grown up with these types of technological advances. However, for some reason, it seems that new medical technology is harder for us to grasp, like stem cell research mentioned in the video. This might be because medical technology, like stem cells or test-tube babies are a little harder to understand than the new Apple software. But even with this technology, newer generations will always be getting better at catching up with advances. I think that cultural lag could potentially become less and less apparent, though it will never go away completely. People are to diverse in their ways of thinking to ever make it so technology is perfectly in-sync with society. However, for now, cultural lag greatly affects society. Understanding that cultural lag exists will help us to recognize where society needs to change and where it wants to change, also. HAL001
ReplyDeleteI completely agree, technological advancements seem to be perfectly fine in our society but as soon as 'test tube babies' gets brought up it is a much more sensitive subject. I believe people think that it is unethical and going against religion when babies are created that way and is causing social conflict for over 20 years. chicagoblackhawks001
DeleteI agree. Electronic technology is far easier for the population to keep up with. When people start to talk about invitro, test-tube, or stem cells the listeners tend to close their ears. Sometimes change isn't bad and we need to recognize that. Sometimes change can save lives. We all have to be willing to listen and try to understand. This may help the cultural lag diminish. TennisChamp001
DeleteThe material things progress faster than the nonmaterialistic things causing what we know as cultural lag. I believe cultural lag exposes what we as humans really consider more important in our lives whether if it is getting an iPhone 7 or paying the house bills. Materialistic things in our culture usually go for the newest phones, laptops, hairstyles, clothing, and etc. Whereas we’ve lost touch of the unmaterialistic things like creativity, beliefs, and values. It’s getting too out of hand now because all of these trends have no true meaning after them. The dumbest thing could be filmed and they trend it and that same day people are quoting it like a movie or a book. Cultural lag also has a huge effect on schools with everyone naturally dividing into different cliques based off of the materialistic things. If you don’t have that new phone or new shirt that came out yesterday, you’re an outcast and no one wants you to sit with them or yet alone be seen with you. This term can either break you or make you in my eyes on whether the materialistic things are more important than your values and opinions, and creativity that we are supposed to embrace about ourselves and how it ties into our culture as a country. Pineapples001
ReplyDeleteCultural lag is defined in the book as the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system. We, in the United States had a big cultural lag in the late 90s early 2000s with medical technology advancing to as far as pulling eggs out of a woman’s body and a man’s sperm and combining them and re inserting (in vitro) but you are also able to pick the child’s sex, genetic information, and so much more. A lot of people thought it was unethical and going against religion. A big lag like this in my opinion caused a lot of social conflict. Another, sensitive, more recent cultural lag in my opinion is the transgender community and the new bathroom laws. Older generations seem to not approve of it compared to younger generations, which now is a huge social conflict that which we have not seem to solve yet.
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I like how you brought up a very new example regarding the transgender community and public restroom laws. I find this to be such a prime example of how cultural lag may affect different generations to much greater extents. Being in the younger generation, I can say that most new laws that cause a lot of hype in society, are not at all bothersome to me, as well as most of my fellow peers. I think this will just continually be a pattern as we get older and even more shocking new laws and cultural “issues” develop. Aloha001
DeleteCultural lag is actually a frightening thing to me. It’s so interesting how our technological advancements are allowing us to progress as a society at such a rapid pace, such as gps for example, or google earth, but our society is still having a huge problem with it invading our own privacy. Like it was stated in the video, adaptation to new technology is very difficult for most societies. Yet, how can we ever advance as a society and our culture as a whole if we aren’t growing with these spectacular advancements. Using the example in class of one woman hosting a completely different couple’s baby and who has the rights of being “mom”, it was easy to see how a society would have a panic attack. In just in our small class, there were extreme contrasting views. Some felt this scientific technological advancement was just that alone and a great tool for couples in need of help in that department. Yet, others felt the woman hosting the baby had full rights to be the baby’s caregiver, regardless of any prior contracts. I found this interesting that a question on parental rights I had previously believed was a no brainer to nearly everyone, was a concept so different to someone else. Aloha001
ReplyDeleteI like your statement on how we cannot fully grow as a society and culture as a whole if we are not growing with the advancements. Cultures may need to take time to accept and understand new technological advancements but in the long run it is so important to eventually come to an conclusion or else there would not be any growth and our society would be at a standstill. Also I completely agree that the example in class was an eyeopener on how people really do view different topics so differently. Sleepyhead001
DeleteFirst off, I respect how real your answer is. The fact that you flat out say that cultural lag frightens you gets real respect. I like how you point out the invasion of privacy. Invasion of privacy and big brother are a huge subject of cultural lag. In today’s world we can have any information at our fingertips without anyone’s consent. What are the boundaries when it comes to technology and privacy? FireFan001
ReplyDeleteCultural lag is an astounding phenomenon that definitely surrounds us as well as other countries around the world today. In all honestly, before today’s class discussion and watching this video I had never really given the topic much thought. The best way to define cultural lag is by saying that it is when material aspects of society move at quicker speeds than the pace of its surrounding culture. This can be cause by things such as new technologies, revolutionary ideas, or even the development of a new cultural normality. Cultural lag then creates problems and divisions between things such as our colleges, courts, society, and even families/friends. The example Professor White used in class was really eye-opening to how bad cultural lag really is. Something I believed to be the obvious answer as to “who’s child is it?” ended up not being the opposite answer of what I thought it would be. I believe that there are, unfortunately, many years until our culture and laws catch up to the technology we have today – not even talking about how much technology will advance further within that time frame. Caffeinated001
ReplyDeletecultural lag is a phenomenon we encounter frequently in recent year. When technology development become faster and faster. Today's class discussion a lot of example about it and show that even in the small class like ours, we still have different opinions in the same question. culture lag sometimes remind us how fast our world changed. That also reminds me the reason we learn about sociology. through the open mind and understand the different from different view can make us understand this change and think about how we gonna deal with it. Magnus001
ReplyDeleteThe term “cultural lag” is relatively new to me. I don't recall ever hearing it before discussing it in class. However, the concept is something I am familiar with. In class we debated the topic of in vitro fertilization and tied that into the topic of cultural lag. I found this very interesting and thought it was extremely helpful in grasping the concept of the term. Cultural lag is when a societies nonmaterial culture doesn't develop at the same rate as their material culture does. In this example about in vitro fertilization, the technology has allowed us to put someone else's baby in a woman who isn't the biological mother. With this new advancement, comes many other moral issues. The questions of what really defines motherhood comes into play when there are custody issues in this situation. Societies everywhere change and develop all the time. We are creating new technologies everyday all around the world. With this, we need to be prepared as a people to work together to keep up with these advances. Saur001
ReplyDeleteCultural lag is a big part of our society. We can't do certain things because of this lag in our culture. My personal experience with cultural lag is connected with stem cell research or something like it. My father has a bone disease and it skipped me so since I am a carrier of my father's bone disease my children will most likely have it. My goal is to be able to take the diseased part of my baby's chromosomes and replace them with healthy chromosomes but because of cultural lag we haven't come this far in our society yet. Rie001
ReplyDeleteCultural lag is a huge part of our society today. I had rarely heard the term used in my daily life, so I didn't know what to expect when we started talking about it in depth. I realize now that some of the technology we have is too advanced for some people in society, such as stem cell research. Stem cell research is a huge dispute. Some will say it's "playing God", yet others will say, "why not use the technology we have to better the population?" Where do we go from there? How can we come to a conclusion? Will some of the population be left behind to catch up when they feel ready or will we all move into the future technology as a whole? TennisChamp001
ReplyDeleteI personally think cultural lag is understandable in our technological fast moving society because values are constructed and set into our minds over many years and technological advancements are happening everyday. A society’s culture and the people’s beliefs and values cannot change as quickly as the technical advancements occur considering you have believed in something your entire life and suddenly with the changes in culture your beliefs are behind the times so to speak. The video says that cultural lag results in social problems and conflicts. An example is the controversy of when life ends and who has the right to end artificial life support. Medical technology is able to make life last longer than it naturally would and it is hard for people to accept new technology as quickly as it is exposed because it challenges their beliefs. Debates over technological discoveries and advancements cause conflicts until the cultural lag diminishes and a common belief on the advancement is accepted. Sleepyhead001
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