This document discusses social heredity, which is the transmission of cultural traits from one generation to the next through environmental factors rather than genetics. It defines heredity as the passing of physical and genetic traits from parents to offspring. Social heredity includes cultural elements like traditions, language, art, and architecture that are acquired from one's social environment, including family, friends, schools, and society rather than being innate. The document emphasizes that social heredity plays an important role in cultural progress and development, and that parents and teachers should provide children with an environment that allows them to benefit from the social heritage of past generations.

1. Social Heredity – Meaning and it’s
Nature
By – Rati Soni

2. OBSERVE THE PICTURE
Do yousee in any waysthat these children are
similar to their parentsor siblings?

3. What Is Heredity?
Definition
• The Transmission of genetic characters from parents to
offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and
recombination of genes.
• One’s Heredity consists of all the structures, physical
characteristics, functions or capacities derived from
parents, other ancestry or species.
• It is more influential because we have no control on what
we inherit.
Genes Parents Offspring

4. Essential Questions
• How are characteristics passed from parent to
offspring?
• What is Social Heredity?
• How does environment affect an individual?
• Role of Parents/ Teachers/ Society &
surroundings in an individual’s life.

5. How Life Begins?
• Life is the result of the union of male & female cells.
• Life begins with Conception, approximately 9 months before
birth. During mating phase each parent passes his or her
chromosome to the child which are transmitted at the time of
conception.
• 46 chromosomes collectively passed by both the parents
comprise everything that determine the heredity of the child.
Male
Cell
Female
Cell
Life

6. Importance Of Heredity
Environmental
Development
is essential
Healthy social
Environment is
Needed
Heredity Plays
a vital Role in
One’s Growth
&
Development

7. Importance Of Heredity
• Each of us is born with certain hereditary endowments, i.e.
the characteristics transmitted to us through our parents.
• We grow up in certain material and social surroundings.
• Everything we do, as a children or as adults, results from the
complex interaction of our heredity and our environment.

8. What is Environment?
Acc. to Woodworth & Marquis, ‘Environment
covers all the outside factors that have acted on
the individual since he began his life”.
Acc. to Langfield and Weld, “The environment is
every thing that affects the individual except his
genes”
What child possesses at the time of conception is all due
to heredity. After conception, how he develops is the
outcome of interaction between his hereditary
characteristics & environment

9. Forces Of Environment
Forces Of
Environment
Therefore from the
environmental point of
view, not only what
happens after birth is
important but also what
goes on inside the
womb of the mother
after conception has
equal significance.
The forces of
Environment begin to
play their part &
influence the growth &
development of the
individual, right from the
time of fertilization of
the ovum by sperm. .

10. External Environmental Forces
Physical Forces Social/ Cultural Forces
Parents/
Friends/
Neighbors
Means of
Mass
Communica
tion
Teachers/
Members of
Society
Religious
Places/
Clubs/
Libraries
Food &
Water
Climate
Physical
Atmospher
e at School,
Home, City
Natural
Resources
Available
The environmental forces have desirable impact on the physical, social, mental,
intellectual, moral development of the individual, which begins with the
emergence of life and follows till death.

11. Relation BetweenEnvironment& Heredity
At the time of
conception, child
inherits the traits &
characteristics of its
parents & forefathers
through genes.
Therefor, what is
possessed at the time
of conception is all
due to heredity.
After Conception, how
he develops is the
outcome of interaction
between his hereditary
characteristics &
environment
The forces of
environment begin to
play their part and
influence the growth
and development of
an individual.

12. Social Heredity
Social
Heredity
Is
A form of an
educational
environment that
affects more than a
single generation.
Is the sum total
of the past
achievements of
more than one
generation
We are NOT
born with Social
Heredity
It includes Social etiquettes, laws, customs & traditions, mother tongue,
system of philosophy, religious books, pictures, work of Art, architectural
monuments like The Taj, Qutab Minar, The Ajanta & Ellora caves or social heritage

13. Social Heredity
Playmates of
the child,
students of his
age- group,
class-fellows
•He acquires a number of
social traits from them
The society
around
•The social heredity is
considered to be of high
significance for the
progress of civilization and
culture
Social
Environment at
home
Social environment of the school is all the more important. It is also called ‘social
heredity
The social heredity is
considered to be of high
significance for the
progress of civilization and
culture

14. Forbidden Social Enviroment
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Parents Fighting

15. Ideal Social Environment
HAPPY CLASS
HAPPY FAMILY

16. Importance of Social Heredity
If a child is surrounded by, good
cultural environment, good family
background, fine family and social
traditions, and has ample opportunity
to participate in the social activities, he
unfolds his latent capacities, imbibes
social culture and develops into a
cultured citizen.
The social heredity is considered to be
of high significance for the progress of
civilization and culture.
Education is sometimes considered to
be synonymous with transmission of
culture or social heredity.

17. Importance Of Social heredity
• The importance of Social Heredity is so great that without it
man would be quite powerless in spite of all his biologically
good traits of intelligence.
• Parents, Teachers & state should be that each child is
surrounded with the proper environment so that he might
benefit himself by acquiring the social heritage which has
been coming down for ages.

18. EducationImplicationsof Social Heredity
• It is the duty of the teacher to provide a suitable environment in the school for the
proper physical, mental and social development of the child
Physical
• Attractive School,
Pleasant comfortable
environment
• provide enough of
space to roam and
play
• Must train the child
in aesthetic
sensibility
• The urban schools
without a playground
or compound, cramp
the individuality of
the child
Mental
• School must
stimulate broad
interest
• Provide
opportunities for
self-analysis
• Provide adequate
amount of self-
control
• Affords an
opportunity for
harmonious growth
and development of
the mental faculties
Social
•Social environment of the
school is all the more
important. It is also called
‘social heredity’
•playmates of the child,
and the social
environment at home
with them he acquires a
number of social traits
•The child comes into
contact with the society
around, and its
civilization and culture.
Here he gets knowledge
of the laws, customs and
traditions of the society
descended from
generation to generation

19. Thank You!