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Amherst College · Sociology

55.6% of Amherst College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Amherst College: 55.6% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
36%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
7%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
14 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Furthest-left subjects

SOCI 226 · Unequal Footprints on the Earth: Understanding the Social Drivers of Ecological Crises and Environmental Inequality83

Sociology

(Offered as SOCI 226 and ENST 226) Creating a more sustainable relationship between human society and the rest of nature requires changing the way we relate to one another as humans. This course will explain why, while answering a number of…

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SOCI 328 · The Pandemic83

Sociology

(Offered as SOCI 328 and ENST 328) This course examines the root social and ecological conditions that gave rise to the COVID-19 pandemic and that help explain the significant inequalities we observe in terms of its impact. We study the…

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SOCI 280 · Protest!80

Sociology

From Black Lives Matter and the farmers' uprising in India, to the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran and international climate strikes, protests across the globe are questioning the social, political, and economic status quo. This course…

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Furthest-right subjects

SOCI 229 · The Sociology of Exclusionary Politics and the Ascendant Far Right10

Sociology

The early twenty-first century has been marked by the convergence of populism, ethno-nationalism, and authoritarianism in all corners of the world. Exclusionary movements have emerged to challenge cultural and intellectual currents in world…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Amherst College · Sociologybias_left_share55.6—18—
Sociologybias_left_share15.314.5 – 16.27,243—
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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