In sociology, traditional society returned to a society characterized by an orientation to the past, non the future, with a predominant role for custom & habit. such(a) societies are marked by a lack of distinction between family and business, with the division of labor influenced primarily by age, gender, and status.
Much of the focus of Enlightenment thinking was directed at undoing the mindset of traditional society, and replacing a focus upon such belief as rural, hierarchical, customary or status with one centred on the ideas of urban, egalitarian, progressive or contractual. Modernism and modernity continued the process of challenging and overcoming traditional society.
Jameson, however, has seen as a determine feature of postmodernism the global elimination of residual, 'traditional' enclaves, giving it its one-dimensional, temporal vintage that is no longer offset by living examples of the past alongside the new.