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PROFILE: He was born Butler, Georgia, June 29, 1886,

the son of Charlton Greenwood Ogburn, a planter and merchant. He married Rubyn Reynolds in 1910; they had two sons, Howard Reynolds, who died in 1949 in the and William Fielding. Professor Ogburn died in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959

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He was also a statistician and an EducatorAfter earning a Bachelor's degree at Mercer University in Macon, he went on to Columbia University in New York City for an M.A. (1909)

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He Did his Ph.D. in sociology also from Columbia University in (1912)

After that W F Ogburn Became Professor of Sociology at Columbia University where he taught for 8 Year until he became chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago

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Instructor in economics, politics and history (at Princeton in 1911)

Professor of sociology and economics:(in 1912 at Reed College (Portland, Oreg.) where he taught until

1917.)

Professor of sociology: (At the University of Washington,(1917-1918)) Professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. He

remained there from 1927 until his retirement in 1951.

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Examiner and head of the cost-of-living department

(the National War Labor Board (1918-1919)

special agent of the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics

Professor of sociology at Columbia University:

(Where he remained 1919 – 1927)

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He began traveling about the world,He lectured at the universities of Calcutta and Delhi in India, Oxford

He traveled extensively through Asia, the southwest Pacific, Europe, and Latin America. In addition, he was visiting professor of sociology at Florida State University (America)

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Editor of the Journal of American Statistical Association (1920 -1926)

President of the American Sociological Society (in 1929)

President of the American Statistical Association (1931)

Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Census (of the American Statistical Association.)

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Vice-President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1932)

Chairman of the Social Science Research Council (1937 -1939)

President of the Society for the History of Technology (1959)

Consultant to a Range of Government Agencies

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Theory of cultural lag:(Which was coined by William Ogburn in 1915)

The phenomenon whereby cultural elements, such as religious beliefs, change more slowly than structural elements, such as technological

innovations. According to this theory, Social problems and conflicts are caused by this lag and Cultural Lag Theory suggests that a period of maladjustment occurs when the non-material culture is struggling to

adapt to new material conditions

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Perhaps Ogburn's most enduring intellectual legacy is the

Theory of social change he offered in 1922

William Ogburn argued that technology was the basic cause of social change. In particular, he identified three processes by which technology drove social change: Invention, discovery, and diffusion

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(The aforementioned invention of the Plow is one example of a physical invention, but the invention of economic and political systems are also types

of social invention)

Invention can refer the combination and transformation of existing materials into new items, it can also refer to social invention and the propagation of new

ideas.

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It refers to new ways of understanding reality, An example is the “discovery” of North America by Columbus; while the continent

existed prior to Columbus setting sail. But this knowledge was new to Europeans

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It Refers to the Spread of Either an Invention or Discovery from one Area to Another

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>>>>>>These things, Invention, Discovery and Diffusion accumulate, increasing the potential for more inventions; the appearance of a new invention causes reactions in other parts of culture and, as society attempts to reestablish equilibrium through adjustment, society also evolves.

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Machines and tomorrow's world American Society In War time Economic Development of Post-War France Handbook of Sociology Living With Machines

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Man and His Machines On Culture and Social Change Progress and uniformity in Child-Labor

Legislation Social Change with respect to Culture and

Original Nature Social Effects of Aviation

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social sciences and their interrelations Sociology Technology and the Changing Family The Home Cirlcle War, babies, and the future You And Machines

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