Sociology
Examination of the persistence of cultural, political, and economic inequalities between industrialized nations and nations in the Global South. Linkages between historical forms of global domination (imperialism, colonialism, dependent…
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Sociology
7.1% of Rutgers University-New Brunswick's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.
0%60%
Where Sociology courses fall
0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
42%Center-left59–74
33%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Sociology
Comparative analysis of objective conditions and subjective experiences of women in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and of disadvantaged women in the United States and other industrialized nations. Exploration of new forms of women's…
Sociology
Historical experiences of racial and ethnic groups in American society. Contemporary movements of minorities for greater power in the society, including the young, women, and senior citizens. Not open to majors in their senior year.
Furthest-right subjects
None. Rutgers University-New Brunswick Sociology has 9 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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Sociology | bias_left_share | 7.1 | — | 70 | — |
| 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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