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Purdue University · Sociology

6.4% of Purdue University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Purdue University: 6.4% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
91%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
11 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

SOC 33900 · Sociology Of Global Development72

Sociology

00. Analysis of the causes and consequences of global development. Topics include: globalization; colonialism and decolonization; food insecurity and dependency; industrialization, poverty and inequality; migration; debt and trade; women's…

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SOC 41300 · Gender Inequality72

Sociology

00. Major theories of gender inequality; historical and cross-cultural variations in systems of gender inequality; social economic, political, and cultural processes perpetuating gender inequality in U.S. society; interrelationships between…

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SOC 43001 · Environmental Sociology72

Sociology

00. This course introduces students to diverse sociological understandings of how social organizations impact environments, and how environments impact social environments. Topics covered include how interest groups mobilize resources to…

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Furthest right

None. Purdue University Sociology has 11 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
Purdue University · Sociologybias_left_share6.4—172—
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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