There are two basic types of political organization among the simple societies, uncentralized and centralized, the sub-types of these basic types also shown in the following chart:
The uncentralized political organization is a multi-centric authority system whereas the centralized political organization is an uni-centricauthority system. In uncentralized political organization there will be no centralized authority applicable to the tribal society as a whole, uncentralized political organization is also called stateless political organization or acephalous political organization.
On the contrary, in a centralized political organization, there will be a centralized authority applicable to the whole society; the centralized political organization is also called non-acephalous political organization
