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Pepperdine University · Sociology

13.6% of Pepperdine University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Pepperdine University: 13.6% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

33%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

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

Furthest left

SOC 452 · Gender in Society67

Sociology

This course focuses on the social construction of gender in society while exploring how society perpetuates gender and gender inequality. Utilizing salient gender theories, students will examine how gender acts as an institution in society,…

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SOC 431 · Wealth and Poverty in America60

Sociology

The sociological study of the unequal distribution of resources, including how these structural inequalities affect one's life chances. Special attention is given to the causes and effects of these inequalities in the United States. Prerequisite: SOC 200 (CC, DV, UX)

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SOC 458 · Family in a Changing World57

Sociology

This is a cross-disciplinary course that examines the family as a universally important social institution: both its history and current state. This examination will lead to two conclusions: First, the family of bygone eras has, at times,…

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Furthest right

None. Pepperdine University Sociology has 3 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
Pepperdine University · Sociology	bias_left_share	13.6	—	22	—
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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