social heritage
Americannoun
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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
The democratic ideals they expressed in institutional forms—social, political or religious—belonged, of course, to the social heritage they brought with them from the old country.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
Also the social heritage or the inheritance of all of the products of industry and arts of life which are passed on from generation to generation, is essential to the rapid development of civilization.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
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 Chapman Cohen
The social heritage is, of course, all that a man or woman gets from the accumulated wisdom of society.
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
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