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Rice University · Sociology

12.2% of Rice University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Rice University: 12.2% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
81%Center-left59–74
19%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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FramingSubject

Furthest left

SOCI 305 · RACE, SPACE, PLACE72

Sociology

Students in this course will examine theoretical and empirical work about race and racism in U.S. society, focusing primarily on the co-construction of race and space. We will also discuss placemaking as a form of resistance to spatialized racism.

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SOCI 407 · GENDER SEMINAR68

Sociology

An overview of the construction and reproduction of gender as a social category. Course will compare various conceptualizations of gender and discuss structural-, interactional-, and individual-level processes that reproduce gender…

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SOCI 307 · INTERSECTIONALITY67

Sociology

This course will use intersectionality and Black Feminist Thought as frameworks to examine inequality and oppression in U.S. society. Students will consider how various axes of inequality – race, social class, gender, sexuality, and…

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Furthest right

None. Rice 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Rice University · Sociologybias_left_share12.2—131—
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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