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Bowdoin College · Sociology

48.8% of Bowdoin College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Bowdoin College: 48.8% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
15%Left75–91
85%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
20 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

SOC 2234 · (b) Self, Psyche, and Society85

Sociology

Draws on psychosocial studies (following Freud and Freudians) to examine how we bind ourselves to groups, organizations, and communities. Traces the relationship between psychoanalysis and other intellectual traditions such as feminisms,…

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SOC 1010 · (b) Deconstructing Racism78

Sociology

Examines the social, political, and historical evolution of racism as a system and the challenges to studying and eradicating racism in contemporary American society. Investigates the construction of race, the various logics used to justify…

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SOC 1018 · (b) Black Radical Thinkers and the Caribbean77

Sociology

Explores how the Black Caribbean scholars transformed race, nation, and class; expanded Blackness as a political stance and identity; and brought together Black radical traditions across the globe. The trans-Atlantic slave trade and…

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Furthest right

None. Bowdoin College Sociology has 20 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
Bowdoin College · Sociologybias_left_share48.8—41—
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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