From the book “Social change, with respect to culture and original nature”. Part IV. Social Maladjustment

This text is a Russian translation of two chapters of the fourth part of the book “Social Change, with Respect to Culture and Original Nature” by American sociologist William Ogborn, the first edition of which was published in 1922. These parts outline the main points of the cultural lag hypothesis, according to which changes in material culture arose adaptation of a certain part of non-material culture and this adaptation takes some time, forming a lag of one or another duration. The hypothesis of cultural lag became a methodological guideline for Ogborne’s later studies, and also served as a starting point for discussions about mutual influence of technical and social progress and a determining role of the factors of material and non-material culture. The translation was made by V.G. Nikolaev.