The main purpose of this article is to place the disciplinary relationships between political sociology and political economy in a proper framework. Such an endeavor is prompted by some recent ...

Removing sociology as a core course option in Florida has received a lot of criticism and letters of outrage for what seems to be an uninformed and irrational act by state government. However, it may ...

The influence of social theorists such as Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx on international-relations theory are easily found in the classic texts of that discipline, say the editors in chief of this new ...

Why do nation-states go to war? Can international institutions promote peace? And how do people organize across borders to address injustice? This courses examines the politics and sociology of war, ...

There are moments in history when the public silently rewrites the script of a region’s political psychology. The 150th ...

This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Sociology, Erasmus Reciprocal Programme of Study and Exchange Programme for Students from University of California, ...

This seminar will serve as an introduction into current work in the political sociology of developing societies. It focuses on the debate in "transitology"-- how do societies and states transform ...

Populist argumentation claims to represent ‘the people’ against ‘the elite’, appealing to emotions and reacting to a sense of crisis. By analysing a public debate in Finland in which populist ...

This research cluster builds on a strong intellectual tradition in the Department of Sociology at LSE. Research focuses on several themes: the social bases of political parties and movements; the ...

The Sociology Department curriculum is organized around what we would like sociology majors to learn. The six key learning objectives are discussed below, along with the courses from the curriculum ...