MSc in Political Sociology
Full-year programme. Students must take three courses and a dissertation as shown.
Paper |
Course number and title | |
|---|---|---|
1 |
Politics and Society | |
2 |
One full unit or two half units from the following: | |
|
Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe (H) | |
European Society and Politics beyond the Nation State (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Partisanship in Europe (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Nationalism | ||
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) (H) | ||
|
Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life) (H) | |
|
Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H) | |
|
Social Research Methods | |
Globalisation: Economy, Politics and Power (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
Approaches to Human Rights | ||
Regulation, Risk and Economic Life | ||
Classical Social Thought (H) | ||
Modern Social Thought (H) | ||
Economic Sociology (H) | ||
Political Reconciliation (H) | ||
Gender and Societies (H) | ||
Contemporary Social Thought | ||
Race and Biopolitics (H) (n/a 14/15) | ||
International Migration and Migrant Integration (H) | ||
Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H) | ||
The Sociology of Markets (H) | ||
Technology, Power and Culture (H) | ||
Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (H) | ||
Class, Politics and Culture (H) | ||
Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies (H) | ||
3 |
One full unit or two half units either from the list under paper 2 above, or from 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. | |
4 |
Dissertation | |
