APA Dictionary of Psychology

culture lag

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. the tendency for some aspects of a culture to change at a slower rate than others, resulting in the retention of beliefs, customs, and values that no longer seem appropriate to altered economic or technological conditions.
  2. a specific cultural survival of this kind. Compare culture lead. Also called cultural lag; cultural residue.
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