Paper 1

SO407 Politics and Society (1.0)

Paper 2

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

EU447 Democracy, Ideology and the European State (0.5)

EU481 The Future: 24-hour Society and its Discontents (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

EU4A5 People and Politics in Europe (0.5)

GV4J8 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GV4K7 Conflict and Cooperation: Key Debates (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

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

MY423 Interview Methods for Social Science Research (0.5) #

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

SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5)

SO427 Modern Social Thought (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)

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

SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (0.5)

SO490 Contemporary Social Thought (0.5)

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)

SO4C4 Global Mobilities: International Migration (0.5)

SO4C6 Reading Black Thought (0.5)

SO4D1 Economic Sociology (1.0)

SO4D7 Capitalism and its Critics (0.5)

SO4E3 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory (0.5)

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