social heritage

noun

, Sociology.

1. the entire inherited pattern of cultural activity present in a society.

Example Sentences

The social heritage is, of course, all that a man or woman gets from the accumulated wisdom of society.

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He shows from infancy that he is unable to enter into the social heritage because he is unable to learn to do social things.

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The social heritage of the Negro has been described at great length and often with little regard for fact, by hundreds of writers.

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In any concrete situation the transmission of a social heritage may combine varying elements of both processes.

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Human society, then, unlike animal society is mainly a social heritage, created in and transmitted by communication.

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