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Vanderbilt University · Sociology

10.6% of Vanderbilt University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Vanderbilt University: 10.6% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

4%Far left92–100

30%Left75–91

63%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

4%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

27 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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Framing Subject

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

SOC2371 · Immigration in America100

Sociology

Theories of international migration, with an emphasis on migration as a social process. Economic and social impact, including assimilation, immigrant incorporation, and the second generation. The migrant experience, including transnational…

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SOC3611 · Women and the Law83

Sociology

History of laws in the U.S. subordinating women. Efforts by feminists to achieve substantive and procedural equity. Employment, educational, reproductive, and criminal law, and women's role in the legal profession. [3] (P)

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SOC3602 · Change and Social Movements in the Sixties78

Sociology

Mid-1950s to mid-1970s. The rise and influence of social movements in the 1960s, including civil-rights, student, anti-Vietnam War, feminist, and countercultural. [3] (SBS)

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Furthest-right subjects

SOC2701 · Racial Domination, Racial Progress33

Sociology

Racial and ethnic relations in contemporary American society. Impact of race and ethnicity on education, economics, politics, family, and health. Study of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans. Color-blind ideology. [3] (SBS) (LE SBS)

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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
Vanderbilt University · Sociology	bias_left_share	10.6	—	85	—
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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