The process of human society was divided into three stages in the book a history of politics written by Edward Jenks and translated by Yan Fu: totemistic society, patriarchal society and military or modern political society (also country society).

Social conventional appellation tends to be diversified and social conventional appellation vacancy occurs.

As an applied sociology, which focuses on the laws of social traffic behavior, social traffic phenomenon, welloperation of the traffic industry and the harmonious development of the whole traffic system and the society in common,traffic sociology comes into being following the trend of social change, specially, evolution of traffic and progress of sociology.