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.
Date: March 1910-September 1911. Location: Kern Country, California. Oil Spilled: 378 million gallons. The worst accidential oil spill in U.S. and world history occurred in 1910, when a crew drilling for oil beneath California scrubland tapped into a high-pressure reservoir 2,200 feet below the surface.