Of course, churches and Christians find themselves in very different contexts: some in very wealthy settings where the experience of poverty as it is known to millions in the world today is practically unknown, or in egalitarian societies where the basic needs of life seem to be assured for almost everybody, to situations of extreme poverty. (religion-online.org)
It took the Dutch in the sixteenth century to develop the idea of domesticity as we know it now: the house with corridors and defined rooms, in a more egalitarian society where people did not have multiple homes and could comfortably set down roots in one place. (treehugger.com)
Still, she notes that, «In the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet. (firstthings.com)