social heritage
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Man is part of nature, product of his social heritage, culture and environment . . . and religion is deemed to consist of 'those actions, purposes and experiences which are humanly significant.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Man's life to-day is subject to a great social heritage which, unlike his natural heritage, can be realized only as a result of his own activity and acquisition.
From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by Kellicott, William E.
Education is the process by which society undertakes the transmission of its social heritage.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
They bit deeply in to social institutions; the temper of mind they induced became part of our social heritage.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
The social heritage of the Negro has been described at great length and often with little regard for fact, by hundreds of writers.
From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul
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