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Duke · Sociology

10.6% of Duke's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

0%60%
Duke: 10.6% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

SOCIOL227 · Leadership and Collaboration78

Sociology

Investigates the causes, consequences, experience and potential transformation of US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Stimulates critical thought, discussion, and research on alternative ethical positions on criminal justice policies,…

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SOCIOL223 · Data Analytics and Visualization for Business70

Sociology

Most people grow up in families, but few know much about them. Taken for granted beliefs that marriages should be based on love, that heterosexuality is an obvious identity, and that mothers want to care for their children, are recent…

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SOCIOL221 · Eastern Europe in Transition: Markets, Media, and the Mafia65

Sociology

Overview of the inner workings and ethics of the US criminal justice process, including criminal legislation, police procedures, courts, and corrections. Explores case studies, empirical research, film, theories, and policies to understand…

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Furthest right

None. Duke Sociology has 5 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
Duke · Sociologybias_left_share10.6—47—
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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