The webinar on “The Social Impact of a Changing World Society, 1950-2024,” sponsored by the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell, features John W. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Stanford. Meyer reviews the sociological research tradition on the nature and impact of “world society” since World War II, exploring the evolution from liberalism to neoliberalism, and now towards what may be termed “post-liberalism.”