1.3.2.2 Investing in People

Definition: Society's capacity to invest in people to ensure they become functional, productive members of society. This includes society's capacities to socialize, educate and train individuals, as well as society's capacities to foster culture and instill that culture in its members.

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Investing in People Categories:

1.3.2.2.1 Education and Training Capacity: Society's capacity to provide its members with new skills and knowledge. (Definition Source: None)

1.3.2.2.2 Fostering Culture: Society's capacity to instill in its members socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all products of human work and thought typical of the population or community at a given time. This also includes society's capacity to encourage new products of human work and thought. (Definition Source: None)

1.3.2.2.3 Socialization: Society's capacity to instill in its members social norms and ethics. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)