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. This is best described as _________________________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Cultural lag

Explanation:

Cultural lag is a situation where by a society experiences technological development at a rate faster than the development that occurs in culture and general way of life.

A very good example is that it takes a longtime before cultural development can match up with technological developments and advancements thus leading to social problems due to lag. The cultural lag theory was formed in 1922 by William F Ogburn a sociologist.