Sociology
4 credits (Spring) This class explores the many strands of the Black radical tradition, those who seek to fundamentally challenge dominant interlocking systems of oppression. Topics will include racial capitalism; identity politics and…
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Grinnell College · Sociology
30% of Grinnell 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
8%Far left92–100
54%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Sociology
4 credits (Spring) This course examines the intersection of social media and social movements with a particular focus on #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) activism. Students will explore how BLM and other movements mobilize for social justice,…
Sociology
4 credits Fall The Deep Fake: Legal Conundrums of Regulating Tech-Facilitated Sexual Violence. Deep fake pornography, sextortion, so-called "revenge porn," and upskirting: researchers collectively term these and other forms of a spectrum of…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Grinnell College Sociology has 13 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grinnell College · Sociology | bias_left_share | 30 | — | 30 | — |
| 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.