Sociology
This course foregrounds the ways gender, race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions of social differentiation organize our experiences in society and together shape social identities, social interactions, and social institutions.…
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American University · Sociology
26.7% of American University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.
0%60%
Where Sociology courses fall
13%Far left92–100
47%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
7%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
Sociology
This course foregrounds the ways gender, race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions of social differentiation organize our experiences in society and together shape social identities, social interactions, and social institutions.…
Sociology
This seminar explores issues in the social construction and institutionalization of race and racism; the historical, economic, and political roots of the process of racialization; the ideologies and discourses that buttress and challenge…
Furthest-right subjects
Sociology
This course examines instances and theories of national, ideological, ethnic, religious, and political extremism and their relationship to education. Students develop a working definition of extremism and then analyze how state authorities,…
Why this number, in plain words
Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.
Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American University · Sociology | bias_left_share | 26.7 | — | 45 | — |
| Sociology | bias_left_share | 15.3 | 14.5 – 16.2 | 7,243 | — |
- Formula
- 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
- Interval
- Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.
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