Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

social heritage

American  

noun

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


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

Children need the Bible as a part of their social heritage.

From Religious Education in the Family by Henry Frederick Cope

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 Paul Popenoe

Education is the process by which society undertakes the transmission of its social heritage.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman

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

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training