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College of William and Mary · Sociology

21.2% of College of William and Mary's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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College of William and Mary: 21.2% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

20%Left75–91

75%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

5%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

20 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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Framing Subject

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

SOCL 203 · Institutions and Inequality83

Sociology

Credits: (3) Domain (Anchored): CSI This course will focus on various institutions in the United States with particular attention paid to the ways that institutional arrangements both reflect and recreate inequality in American society. In…

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SOCL 315 · Gender, Sexuality and the State83

Sociology

Credits: (3) This course explores how legal systems construct and regulate gender and sexuality. We will bring the tools from an array feminist, queer, and critical race theory frameworks to bear upon legal arguments to illuminate their…

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SOCL 318 · Gender and Global Human Rights75

Sociology

Credits: (3) College Curriculum: CSI This course explores why gender-based violence and discrimination persist globally despite numerous United Nations instruments of human rights law, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of…

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Furthest-right subjects

SOCL 314 · The Politics of Global Health25

Sociology

Credits: (3) This course critically examines the construction and institutionalization of global health using a sociological lens. We analyze concepts and cases related to colonialism; gender and social structure; neoliberalism;…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
College of William and Mary · Sociology	bias_left_share	21.2	—	52	—
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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