Types of Societies, Distinguished by Differentiation and Inequality Unequal Equal Differentiated Contemporary U.S. Imagined Communism (Society B) Undifferentiated Patriarchal Bands (Society A) Imagined Primitive Communal
III. Questions A. Which society (A or B, above) is more differentiated? B. Which society has more inequality? C. Which society seems more likely to exist (to have existed)? D. Why? E. Which is a better society? Which is a more just society? F. Which provides a better ideal toward which we might strive?