Paper 1

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO4D3 Culture and Society (0.5)

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

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

SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5)

SO471 Technology, Power and Culture (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)

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5)

SO4B8 Internationalism and Solidarity (0.5)

SO4B9 The Sociology of Consumption (0.5)

SO4C5 The Social Life of Infrastructure (0.5)

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

SO4C8 The Social and Political Lives of the Dead (0.5)

SO4D4 Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (0.5)

SO4E3 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory (0.5)

SO4E5 Artificial Intelligence and the Social World: Theory and Practice (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following (unless taken under Paper 2:

AN476 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5)

EU4A3 The Americas and Europe (0.5)

GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice (0.5)

GI403 Gender and Media Representation (0.5)

GI410 Screening the 21st Century: Cinema and Cultural Critique (0.5) #

GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (0.5)

GY439 Cities, Politics and Citizenship (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

MC402 The Audience in Media and Communications (0.5) #

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

MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

PB432 Social Representations: Social Knowledge and Contemporary Issues (0.5)

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

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

SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5)

SO471 Technology, Power and Culture (0.5)

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

SO477 Urban Social Theory (0.5)

SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5)

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5)

SO4B8 Internationalism and Solidarity (0.5)

SO4B9 The Sociology of Consumption (0.5)

SO4C5 The Social Life of Infrastructure (0.5)

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

SO4C8 The Social and Political Lives of the Dead (0.5)

SO4D4 Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (0.5)

SO4E3 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory (0.5)

SO4E5 Artificial Intelligence and the Social World: Theory and Practice (0.5)

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

Paper 4

SO493 MSc in Culture and Society Dissertation (1.0)