ABSTRACT
We can contrast the two types of society without considering the developmental problem. But it is certain that the tribal-type antedated the differentiated society in the whole march of human history. This major development has occurred in a limited number of areas, involving particular societies, which have then spread their influence, by trade and conquest, until tribal-type societies became involved in their economic and political systems. In the last century the highly differentiated relations of Western industrial society have been extended to most of the world's tribal societies. In the past, the developed polities and economies of China, India, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and other states have similarly absorbed tribal societies, and lifted them into their exchange economies. Hence in confining ourselves to tribal societies we are dealing with political systems in which the struggle for power and prestige might be acute, but it was fought along lines of territorial and genealogical cleavages, and not between differently endowed economic groups.
