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.
This article was originally published in May 2010, shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier this week, an oil pipeline off the coast of Santa Barbara ruptured, spilling more than 20,000 gallons of crude oil over a 4-mile stretch of ocean.