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Hamilton College · Sociology

38.9% of Hamilton College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Hamilton College: 38.9% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

5%Far left92–100
19%Left75–91
76%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
21 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

SOC 382 · Prison Nation: Gender, Race, and Abolition Politics94

Sociology

In this course, students will read sociological texts that examine how race and gender affect people's experiences with state-based violence and social control. This course examines the racist and sexist externally imposed state policies…

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SOC 231 · Racism and Race in the United States85

Sociology

This course examines the relationship between racism, racial discrimination, and racial inequality in the US. It investigates how institutions, culture, and social interactions are deeply informed by race and reproduce the structures of…

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SOC 222 · Race, Gender, and Imprisonment78

Sociology

The majority of discussions and literature surrounding mass incarceration center that of heterosexual men in prisons. The goal of this course is to complicate who is behind bars, how they got there, and their experiences thereof. To this…

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Furthest right

None. Hamilton College Sociology has 21 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
Hamilton College · Sociologybias_left_share38.9—54—
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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