ABSTRACT
In the Early Family phase the Kinship group has become obsolete as a political and economic structure. Human society is no longer built up on a basis of blood relationship. The State has begun its existence, and this means one of the greatest changes in human history. Of course the ancient blood tie was not extinct psychologically, and relationship might still mean much in emotional life and indirectly. But the clan or sept has ceased to function as an economic or political entity. The rich man’s son has a double chance of wealth, a double advantage over the poor; and thus as the rich man’s wealth and power increases, so the poor man becomes comparatively ever poorer and ever more defenceless. The development of agriculture made it possible to extend the subjugation, which was formerly the lot of women only, to a certain number of the male population.
