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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
24%Left75–91
73%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
37 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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

SOCI 414 · CRITICAL RACE THEORY83

Sociology

This course will examine critical race theory. It will provide students an opportunity to evaluate what it is and is not, its origins and central tenets, and its impact today across multiple fields including sociology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 514.

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SOCI 514 · CRITICAL RACE THEORY83

Sociology

This course will examine critical race theory. It will provide students an opportunity to evaluate what it is and is not, its origins and central tenets, and its impact today across multiple fields including sociology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SOCI 414.

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SOCI 607 · GENDER SEMINAR80

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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Furthest-right subjects

None. Rice University Sociology has 37 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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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