Ogburn, William - (1886â1959) A sociologist who coined the popular term culture lag, which refers to the tendency of changes in nonmaterial culture to happen more slowly than those in material culture.
BP oil spill: The environmental impact one year on. In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people and resulted in 4.9m barrels of oil being discharged, threatening marine life and hundreds of miles of coastline.
The explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig, 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, set off a spill that continued for 87 days, fouling large areas of the Gulf Coast of the United States with 206 million gallons of crude oil.