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MSc in Sociology

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Programme Code: TMSO

Department: Sociology

For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three units and write a dissertation as shown.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Course code, title (unit value)

Paper 1

One from the following:

SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

Papers 2 & 3

A

Courses to the value of 2.5 unit(s) from the following:

SO407 Politics and Society (1.0)

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO451 Cities by Design (0.5)

SO454 Families and Inequalities (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO457 Political Reconciliation (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5)

SO468 International Migration and Migrant Integration (0.5)

SO470 The Sociology of Markets (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO471 Technology, Power and Culture (0.5)

SO473 Crime, Control and the City (0.5)

SO475 Material Culture and Design (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO477 Urban Social Theory (0.5)

SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5)

SO489 Family and International Migration (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5)

SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO4B9 The Sociology of Consumption (0.5)

SO4C1 Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism (0.5)

SO4C4 Global Mobilities: International Migration (0.5)

SO4C5 The Social Life of Infrastructure (0.5)

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

SO4D1 Economic Sociology (1.0)

SO4D2 Modern Personhoods and Identitarian Thought (0.5)

SO4D5 The Sociology of Health Inequalities: Politics, States, and Time (0.5)

Paper 4

SO499 MSc in Sociology Dissertation (1.0)

Footnotes

A: Papers 2 & 3: Any of the MSc courses offered in any department or institute at LSE if they are relevant to the programme of study, and subject to the approval of both Programme Director and course teacher. Options taken outside the department should not normally exceed the value of 0.5.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.