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University of Houston · Sociology

8.3% of University of Houston's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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University of Houston: 8.3% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 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

SOC 3363 · Sociology of Poverty68

Sociology

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: SOCI 1301 or consent of instructor. Description Sociological perspectives on poverty and income inequality using an intersectional lens exploring poverty in social institutions,…

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SOC 3312 · Sociology of Deviance67

Sociology

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: SOCI 1301 . Description An examination of the social and structural causes of behavior that violate the norm and how society responds to the people it defines as criminal, crazy,…

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SOC 3319 · Gender, Sexuality, and Health67

Sociology

3.0Lecture Contact Hours: 3.0 Lab Contact Hours: 0.0Prerequisite: SOCI 1301 or consent of instructor. Description An overview of patterns in health status, health behaviors and healthcare utilization across gender and sexuality. Special…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Houston Sociology has 12 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
University of Houston · Sociologybias_left_share8.3—84—
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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