Some Cultural-Lag Problems Which Social Science Has Solved

Hart, Hornell

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“…It might be not possible to develop jet lag when travelling by boat, horse, cart, foot, etc., in which our speed of travelling is slow. [6] Hence, the body would have enough time to regulate civil time once motion through a neighbourhood. In step with Medical News Today, the term, 'Jet lag' may be a relatively new one; because 80 years ago, nobody cosmopolitan across many time zones quickly as there was no jets or the opposite fairly speedy transportation.…”

Section: Jet Lag: Rift Between Internal and External Clockmentioning

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Physiological Facets of Jet Lag: Melatonin is the Key Ruler

Mulgund

Puranik

2021

IJCEP

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Section: Jet Lag: Rift Between Internal and External Clockmentioning

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Physiological Facets of Jet Lag: Melatonin is the Key Ruler

Mulgund

Puranik

2021

IJCEP

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“…Social sciences had, however, solved such lags in the pasthe cited reduced instances of lynching, typhoid deaths, air fatalities, tuberculosis deaths, diarrhoea and enteritis, and railway fatalities. 116 He also plotted graphs of the earlier developments of various bodies of knowledge as they became increasingly scientized to demonstrate that the social sciences should also, in theory, be able to close the current gap with the physical sciences. Once this was done, mankind would have the instruments to be able to control 'technological acceleration' and atomic energy.…”

Section: Cultural Lagmentioning

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“…15 Woolf, International Government, 99,116,117,[197][198][199][200]; Hobson, Towards International Government, 116-117; Hobson, Democracy after the War, 196-197; Reinsch, Public International Unions, 4, 6, 7, 12-76, 176. On Reinsch, see Jan Klabbers, 'The Emergence of Functionalism in International Institutional Law: Colonial Inspirations', The European Journal of International Law 25, no.…”

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Invention, Interdependence, and the Lag

2021

Technological Internationalism and World Order

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“…4. For proponents of the theory, see: Allen (1971), Duncan (1964), Hart (1948Hart ( , 1951Hart ( , 1957 and Herman (1937). 5.…”

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Cultural lag: conception and theory

Brinkman

1997

International Journal of Social Economics

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IntroductionThere have been many attempts to relate and integrate the social into the economic and vice versa. The conception and theory of cultural lag is well suited to a blending of the social and the economic. Whereas an analysis of the need for institutional adjustment is outside the paradigmatic boundaries of mainstream economic analysis, institutional adjustment is central to the concept and theory of cultural lag. In their attempts to integrate the social and the economic in an holistic framework, both Thorstein Veblen as an economist, and William F. Ogburn as a sociologist, utilized the conception of cultural lag in their theories related to the dynamics of culture evolution. Whereas Veblen analysed the processes of economic evolution in the framework of culture evolution, Ogburn analysed social evolution in the context of culture evolution (Ogburn, 1966, p. 377).Consequently, cultural lag does not pertain simply to conception alone, but relates to theory and explanation as well, "I think it better to say that since it is a concept of a relationship, it is a theory. It is therefore more than merely a new term in the language" (Ogburn, 1957, pp. 169-70). As concept and theory, cultural lag helps to identify, analyse and explain social problems as well as to predict and anticipate future problems. More than that, it can also be policyoriented and direct us to possible solutions. It is noted in the literature that the cultural lag concept and theory has provided one of the most important tools of socioeconomic analysis:The cultural lag approach has been one of the master concepts of modern social analysis … The concept of culture lag, which Veblen used to analyse social processes, has been widely used by American sociologists to account for both social change and social problems (Davis, 1968, pp. 304-5).Cultural lag is discussed in most current sociology textbooks as an important aspect of social change. Cultural lag is often critiqued, however, as being too general as to conception. "Once a theory includes such concepts as 'lags'… it becomes so labile and so indistinct that it can be reconciled with virtually any configuration of data" (Merton, 1951, p. 238). None the less, the concept has weathered the storm. The significance, staying power, and merits of the concept are obvious, in that "cultural lag" still appears in most dictionaries and textbooks [1].Relative to its importance, there is little current discussion pointedly directed to a specific statement of cultural lag theory and its relevance to current

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Some Cultural-Lag Problems Which Social Science Has Solved

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Physiological Facets of Jet Lag: Melatonin is the Key Ruler

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