Examples:	Australian Aborigines, Eskimo, etc.	Navaho, Hopi, Fulani, etc.	Ancient Egypt, France, U.S., etc.
POLITICAL	band societies	tribal societies	state societies
KINSHIP	nuclear family	extended family	nuclear family
RELIGION	monotheism	polytheism	monotheism
ECONOMY	hunter-gatherer	horticulture, pastoralism	agriculture, industry

White colonialists often claimed tribal societies were "primitive" because they believed in polytheism and did not have nuclear families. But  small scale hunter-gatherer societies also tend to have monotheism and nuclear families, just like large scale state societies. There is no "ladder" of cultural acheivement; the diversity of social forms simply represents the diverse ways in which different cultures meet their needs.