The phrase "forms of society" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the different ways in which groups of people organize and interact with each other. Example: "Anthropologists study the various forms of society across different cultures and time periods."
Many architectural visions are powered by ideas of new forms of society, radical ideologies demanding megastructures.
Democracy seems well placed when we ask which general forms of society satisfy the "no humiliation" requirement.
This idea is useful in considering the differences between tribal societies and other forms of society, including modern societies.
The second volume, Trade and Markets in the Early Empires (1957, written with others), concentrated on nonmarket forms of society.
Everything comes down to the struggle between the network and the hierarchy: between old forms of society moulded around capitalism and new forms of society that prefigure what comes next.... Is it utopian to believe we're on the verge of an evolution beyond capitalism?
Economists with anachronistic models and categories are likened to Don Quixote, who "paid the penalty for wrongly imagining that knight-errantry was equally compatible with all economic forms of society".
These were young idealists intent on the rebuilding of a new form of society after the destructiveness of war.
The particular form of society it created will never be replicated, nor will the conditions that gave rise to it.
Accordingly, Fourier envisioned a form of society that would be more in keeping with human needs and desires.
But, even where an element of choice existed, it remained the consensus that the only viable form of society in the modern world was industrial society.
