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Pennsylvania State University-University Park · Sociology

14.3% of Pennsylvania State University-University Park's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Pennsylvania State University-University Park: 14.3% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

88%Center-left59–74

13%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

8 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

SOC 20N · Critical Media Literacy68

Sociology

We live in a world in which we are surrounded with media messages that influence how we think and act. Since we are so immersed in media culture, it is important that we know how to analyze media content, production and reception, so that…

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SOC 119N · Race, Ethnicity and Culture66

Sociology

SOC 119N Race, Ethnicity and Culture (3 or 4 credits) (GS/GH;US/IL)(BA) Additionally, SOC 119N is an Inter Domain course (Social Sciences and Humanities) This course focuses on historical patterns and current status of racial, ethnic and…

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SOC 150N · Healthy People, Healthy Society65

Sociology

This course examines how individual health and well-being are influenced by social forces and public policy. The course revolves around three questions: How are social life and individual well-being linked? How can social policy positively…

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Furthest right

None. Pennsylvania State University-University Park Sociology has 8 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
Pennsylvania State University-University Park · Sociology	bias_left_share	14.3	—	56	—
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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