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The New School · Sociology

30.7% of The New School's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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The New School: 30.7% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

5%Far left92–100
22%Left75–91
64%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
86 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

GSOC 6249 · Marxist Feminism: A Genealogy of U.S. Feminist Theory98

Sociology

The course explores the U.S. Marxist feminist theoretical tradition. We will consider the past, present, and future of a variety of post-1960 feminist reformulations of Marxist concepts and methods designed to theorize and contest…

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GSOC 5063 · Traces of the Multitude92

Sociology

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conceptualize "World Society" as one world-covering empire, which represents a new global form of sovereignty establishing a decentered and de-territorialized apparatus of rules by the fact that it brings…

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GSOC 6147 · Climate Violence/Climate Justice92

Sociology

Climate justice is an urgent demand given the disproportionate impacts of climate change and other forms of human-caused environmental degradation on people and places least responsible for causing the problem, in particular poor,…

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Furthest right

None. The New School Sociology has 85 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
The New School · Sociologybias_left_share30.7—277—
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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