According to Ogburn, cultural lag is a common societal phenomenon due to the tendency of material culture to evolve and change rapidly and voluminously while non-material culture tends to resist change and remain fixed for a far longer period of time.
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In a United Press International article published in June 1958 Sherman provided a glimpse into her textile and interior architectural design philosophy : " Designers must have a real sense about people and machines or they'll produce designs which are cultural lags.
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A slightly different variant of soft determinism is the 1922 technology-driven theory of social change proposed by William Fielding Ogburn, in which society must adjust to the consequences of major inventions, but often does so only after a period of cultural lag.
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They reflected the deep cultural lag of a 68-year-old high school dropout from a small town in Ohio who had lived much of his adult life in Las Vegas, except for visits to New York to appear on CBS'" The NFL Today ."
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"What you have in Poland is a cultural lag, " he said, adding, " I'm optimistic it will change because I see the enormous changes that have taken place in Poland in last 15 years and most especially in the last five years ."
