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
Education is the process by which society undertakes the transmission of its social heritage.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
Society now may be defined as the social heritage of habit and sentiment, folkways and mores, technique and culture, all of which are incident or necessary to collective human behavior.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
Children need the Bible as a part of their social heritage.
From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick
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 Baldwin, James Mark
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