Paper 1

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

SO488 Social Scientific Analysis of Inequalities (0.5)

and

For students enrolled on the Atlantic Fellows Social and Economic Equity Programme:

SO4A8 Leadership and Social Change (0.5)

For all other students, one from:

MY421A Qualitative Research Methods (0.5)

MY421W Qualitative Research Methods (0.5)

MY422 Participatory Research (0.5)

MY423 Interview Methods for Social Science Research (0.5) #

MY425 Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research (0.5) #

MY426 Doing Ethnography (0.5) #

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

MY451A Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) #

MY451W Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) #

Paper 2

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

SO407 Politics and Society (1.0)

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

SO458 Gendering, Identities, Difference (0.5)

SO480 Urban Inequalities (0.5)

SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5)

SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods (0.5)

SO4B5 The Anticolonial Archive (0.5)

SO4C3 Social Mobility, Politics and Meritocracy (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

SO4C4 Global Mobilities: International Migration (0.5)

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

SO4C7 Patriarchy and Society (0.5)

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

SO4C9 Risk Governance (0.5)

SO4D1 Economic Sociology (1.0)

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

SO4D6 The Economics of Inequality for Non-Economists (0.5) #

SO4D7 Capitalism and its Critics (0.5)

SO4E4 Sociology of Ethnoracial Classification and Inequality (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):

AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)

DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)

DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5)

DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5)

DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5)

EU4A4 The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (0.5)

GI415 Gender and Welfare Regimes: Developments and Change (0.5)

GV4D7 Dilemmas of Equality (0.5)

GV4L4 Critical Theory and Political Action (0.5)

GY404 Inclusive Growth (0.5) #

GY413 Regional Development and Policy (0.5) #

GY459 Global Urbanism (0.5)

GY477 Race, Capitalism and Resistance (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

LL4CG Tax Policy and Design (0.5) #

LL4CO Taxation of Wealth (0.5) #

LL4H8 Employment Law (0.5)

MC407 International Media and The Global South (0.5) # (suspended 2026/27)

MC433 Technology and Justice (0.5) #

MG4D2 International Employment Relations (0.5) #

SP445 Migration and Inequality (0.5)

SP477 Crime, Justice & Social Policy (0.5)

Paper 2 options list

Or 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

SO497 MSc in Inequalities and Social Science Dissertation (1.0)