Sociology
Explores possibilities and limits of law as a vehicle for promoting equality and social justice in democratic capitalism, and conditions that maximize law's equality-promoting potential. Examines how law helps construct, reproduce and…
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University of Arizona · Sociology
12.4% of University of Arizona'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
5%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
86%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
5%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
The goal of this course is to investigate women's representation in the professions. Women make up half the population and have earned more than half of all undergraduate degrees in the U.S. since the early 1980s; yet women constitute only…
Sociology
Reproductive health and well-being involve a responsible, safe and satisfying sex life, the capability to reproduce, and the freedom to control one's reproductive capabilities. This implies access to safe, effective, and affordable methods…
Furthest-right subjects
Sociology
Why is it illegal to sell your vote but legal to sell your ideas? Should we reform Social Security, privatize retirement savings, or count on families and charities to take care of the elderly? All these questions point to the diverse ways in which modern societies are organized.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Arizona · Sociology | bias_left_share | 12.4 | — | 121 | — |
| 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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