Sociology
In this class we will survey the sociological literature on labor and labor movements in America and around the world. We will raise questions related to the organization and transformation of work, the making of class society, trade…
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Middlebury College · Sociology
20% of Middlebury 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
0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
13%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
This course will introduce students to theories of race and racism in the United States, how racial categories are formed and maintained in a variety of social arenas, and how race and racism influence social systems. In order to…
Sociology
In this course, we will study social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior on American society. Specifically, we will examine the ways that individuals interact in social groups, organizations, and…
Furthest-right subjects
Sociology
In this course, we will explore modern antisemitism from a sociological perspective. Drawing on theories and empirical research from sociology and related fields, we will analyze the logic of antisemitic narratives, how antisemitism differs…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlebury College · Sociology | bias_left_share | 20 | — | 20 | — |
| 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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