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Harvard University · Sociology

32.7% of Harvard University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Harvard University: 32.7% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

94%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

16 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

SOCIOL 1024 · Social Inequality70

Sociology

This course is an introduction into the sociological study of Social Inequality. Students will learn about sociological theories and read empirical research describing how social inequality is produced and reproduced in various institutions…

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SOCIOL 1148 · Race and Ethnicity in Global and Comparative Perspective70

Sociology

This course provides an introduction to the comparative study of "race and ethnicity" around the world. We focus here not on particular "ethnic" or "racial" groups, but rather, on particular cases which illustrate how "race" is used as a…

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SOCIOL 1197 · Poverty in the United States70

Sociology

Nearly one in three residents of the United States lives close to the poverty line, and a growing number of people live in deep poverty, subsisting on less than $2 per day. This course examines the social world of poverty in the US today.…

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Furthest right

None. Harvard University Sociology has 16 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Harvard University · Sociology	bias_left_share	32.7	—	49	—
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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