Sustainable Development Indicator Group

Working Draft Framework, Version 2, June 4, 1996

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1.3.3 Social Information

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

Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary

Social Information Categories:

1.3.3.1 History: A chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)

1.3.3.3 Law: The body or systems or rules established by authority, society, or custom. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)

1.3.3.2 Social Knowledge: Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction; the sum or range of what has been percieved, discovered, or learned by society as a whole. (Definition Source: Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary)