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
Now, if this be the social heritage, we may go on to ask: Who are to inherit it?
From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark
But they have nevertheless played their part in creating as part of the social heritage a diffused sense of the reality of supernatural intercourse.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
Education is the process by which society undertakes the transmission of its social heritage.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
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.
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