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Boston College · Sociology

34.8% of Boston College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Boston College: 34.8% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
39%Left75–91
57%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
23 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

SOCY 3375 · American Economic Crisis and Social Change91

Sociology

Course is offered every semester. Course is offered every semester. This course offers a new way to think about American and global capitalism, focusing on our values, our intertwined economic, environmental and social crises exploding in…

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SOCY 3310 · Studies in Crime and Social Justice83

Sociology

Crime and social justice are considered not as distinct, but indivisible constructs produced through specific knowable institutional/personal practices. Course allows students to analyze perspectives on the process through which laws and…

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SOCY 3368 · Masculinity, Sexuality, and Difference80

Sociology

This course may be used to satisfy one of four electives required within the Communication major. This course will examine constructions of masculinity and sexuality in Western society from a critical cultural perspective. We will consider…

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Furthest right

None. Boston College Sociology has 23 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Boston College · Sociologybias_left_share34.8—66—
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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