Cultural inheritance
“people adopt the opinions of those around them without giving much thought to what those opinions might be. In our terminology, people inherit rather than choose their views on religions, politics, and morals.” 32
“cultural continuity of groups is due to inheritance of beliefs and values, and is not merely a result of the effects of individual learning and correlated environments.” 33
“culture is a socially transmitted heritage peculiar to a particular human society” 33
1952 – Kroeber and Kluckhohn – 164 definitions of culture 33
Culture is “observable, socially transmitted patterns of behaviour” 33
Culture can be defined “exclusively in terms of ideas” 33
The constriction of a culture“by a system of shared symbolic constructs such as language, myth, or ritual” 36
“Most anthropologists probably think of culture as a property of human groups, not of individuals, and for some the very essence of the culture concept is that groups of humans share a common set of culturally transmitted ‘meanings’.” 37
Learning it by what we see and experience. 42
There is a connection between genetics and cultural inheritance because you pick up cultures through ‘social learning’ and since most time in the critical developmental years is spent with parents, they are the main teachers, therefore a child will inherit the parents culture.
Robert Boyed, Peter J Richerson. "The cultural Inherutance system." Culture and the Evoutionary Process, The university of Chicago Press, 1985, pp. 32.-80
