Question

Your eighty-three-year-old grandmother has been using a computer for some time now. As a way to keep in touch, you frequently send emails of a few lines to let her know about your day. She calls after every email to respond point by point, but she has never emailed a response back. This can be viewed as an example of ____________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Cultural lag

Explanation:

A cultural lag occurs when society, or members of society, cannot keep up to date with technological advancements.

This may happen because of lack of exposure, training, or desire to participate in the new technologies.

In this case we have an example of cultural lag that is common in the elderly. While the 83 year old grandmother is using a computer, reducing her cultural lag in that way, she will not use her email anyway, either because she does not know how to do so, or because she does not want to. Either way, she is suffering from a cultural lag.