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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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%.
0%60%
Where Sociology courses fall
3%Far left92–100
43%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
0%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
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…
Sociology
This course will help you understand the intersectionality of oppressions suffered by people of color, women, and LGBTQ people particularly as used in the criminal legal system.
Furthest-right subjects
Sociology
This course is geared toward social science and humanities students as well as those in the sciences. We examine the rise of genetic knowledge and advanced biotechnologies and their consequences on society. We examine the historic and…
Sociology
An overview of ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity among peoples of the Balkans (Albanians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks, Macedonians, Romanians, Serbs, Slovenes, Jews, Turks, and gypsies [Roma]). It is a study of what…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston College · Sociology | bias_left_share | 34.8 | — | 66 | — |
| 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.