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CULTURAL LAG
VESTED INTERESTS
Sources of Social Change
Values and Beliefs
Wars and Conquest
Population
Physical Environment
Diffusion
Technology
ETHNOCENTRISM
Resistance
Wars cause great losses of life. ->
<-Many feel that everyone has the right to marry.
Hurrican Katrina left thousands -> wondering when FEMA would bring aid.
<-Ellis Island was once the gateway for millions of immigrants.
Coca-Cola creates new labels to -> appeal to different markets.
<-The Hubble Space telescope has offered new information, but at enormous cost.
-Those who are satisfied with the way things are resist change -Change can mean giving up power EX-Women's suffrage took power away from men
-Material and Nonmaterial culture is not equally advanced around the world -Those in less developed regions advance more slowly EX-Hospitals in rural Africa lack the technology of American hospitals.
-Tendency to view one's own group as superior -Resist groups with opposing viewpoints EX-The Westboro Baptist Church is ethnocentric in their religion
