Sociology
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University of California-Santa Barbara · Sociology
11.3% of University of California-Santa Barbara'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
12%Far left92–100
48%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
2%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
Examination of Marx's core texts, such as 1844 Manuscripts, Grundrisse, and Capital; consideration of theoretical concepts, among them commodity fetishism, exploitation, technology and the labor process, colonialism and precapitalist societies, and crisis theory.
Sociology
Surveys radical social thinkers from 20th century revolutions and sociological reflection on 20th century revolutionary theory and practice. Major thinkers and practitioners surveyed include Leon Trotsky, Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, Mao…
Furthest-right subjects
None. University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology has 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California-Santa Barbara · Sociology | bias_left_share | 11.3 | — | 141 | — |
| 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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