Sociology
Construction of meanings of adolescence, social change and social control. Examines how social institutions such as school, law enforcement, and the state impose social control and how this varies by race, class and gender.
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University of Southern California · Sociology
3.5% of University of Southern California'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
0%Left75–91
77%Center-left59–74
23%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
Analysis of conditions of intimacy and intimate personal relationships as lenses for understanding social inequalities of race, social class, gender, sexuality, and nation. Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis…
Sociology
Examines meanings of deviance and connection with status, power, and social control. Topics include homelessness, mental health, sexuality, the body, drugs, gambling and corporate crime.
Furthest-right subjects
Sociology
Political power, conflict and apathy; public symbols, debate and discourse; nationalism; relations between politics, provision of social services and economics in comparative and historical perspective. Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 537.
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 Southern California · Sociology | bias_left_share | 3.5 | — | 86 | — |
| 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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