They lived in a simple society and were ruled by local headmen.

Therefore a simple and poor society can exist as a democracy on a basis of sheer individualism.

How do you think simple societies maintain their simplicity?

It is a simple society, he said, forced to become simple by the ecological problems that we face today.

How did people in these simple, traditional societies achieve such longevity?

The answer, it turned out, was that people in simple, traditional societies aren't very good at counting.

This means that, in simple societies, each institution performs several functions.

There has always been the concept that this is a simple society and only you have the answers.

Sen's original example used a simple society with only two people and only one social issue to consider.

In simple societies it may be mainly based around kinship and shared values.