Sustainable Development Indicator Group

Working Draft Framework, Version 2, June 4, 1996

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1.3 Social Capital

Definition: The infrastructure that governs the relationships between individuals in a society. This does not includes physical and material assets, which fall under Man-made Capital.

Definition Source: None

Social Capital Categories:

1.3.1 Culture: The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, atrs, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought typical of a population or community at a given time.

------1.3.1.1 Beliefs

------1.3.1.2 Myths

------1.3.1.3 Social Norms

------1.3.1.4 Values

------1.3.1.5 Vision, Goals, Priorities, and Expectations

1.3.5 Informal Relationships: Casual relationships between individuals outside of any formal social organizations. This includes friendships between individuals. (Definition Source: None)

1.3.2 Social Capacities: The capacity of social systems to produce services and experiences.

------1.3.2.1 Caring for People

------1.3.2.2 Investing in People

------1.3.2.3 Organizing People

1.3.3 Social Information: The sum total of all knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction; the sum or range of what has been percieved, discovered, or learned.

------1.3.3.1 History

------1.3.3.3 Law

------1.3.3.2 Social Knowledge

1.3.4 Social Institutions: Groups of persons banded together for common purposes having rights, privilages, liabilities, goals, or objectives distinct and independant from those of individual members.

------1.3.4.1 Community

------1.3.4.2 Community Service Organizations

------1.3.4.3 Educational Institutions

------1.3.4.4 Ethnic or Cultural Groups

------1.3.4.5 Extended Family

------1.3.4.6 Families and Households

------1.3.4.7 Governments and Legal Institutions

------1.3.4.8 Health Care Institutions

------1.3.4.10 Intellectual and Cultural Organizations

------1.3.4.11 Market Institutions

------1.3.4.12 Political and Non Government Organizations

------1.3.4.13 Religious Organizations