Paper 1

SO407 Politics and Society (1.0)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

EU425 Interest Representation and Economic Policy- Making in Europe (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

EU447 Democracy, Ideology and the European State (0.5)

EU481 The Future: 24-hour Society and its Discontents (0.5)

EU4A5 People and Politics in Europe (0.5)

GV4J8 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GV4K7 Conflict and Cooperation: Key Debates (0.5)

MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (0.5) #

MY425 Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO430 Economic Sociology (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

SO457 Political Reconciliation (0.5)

SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO468 International Migration and Migrant Integration (0.5)

SO470 The Sociology of Markets (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO471 Technology, Power and Culture (0.5)

SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (0.5)

SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO482 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO4B5 The Anticolonial Archive (0.5)

SO4B7 Lawful Violence (0.5)

SO4B8 Internationalism and Solidarity (0.5)

SO4C1 Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism (0.5)

SP441 Politics of Social Policy (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

Any of the MSc courses offered in any department or institute at the LSE, so long as they are relevant to the study of political sociology, and subject to the approval of both Programme Director and course teacher, or from the following:

Paper 2 options list

Paper 4

SO494 MSc in Political Sociology Dissertation (1.0)