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Wake Forest University · Sociology

14.6% of Wake Forest University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Wake Forest University: 14.6% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
17%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
33%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

SOC 358 · Racial Capitalism.75

Sociology

Examines the historical and contemporary relationship between race and capitalism. Covers both the origins and operations of racial capitalism as well as global movements that challenge it.

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SOC 336 · Money, Markets and Medicine.68

Sociology

Examines the entanglement of financial interest with care for the sick and dying, interrogating how power and profit shape what health is and who has access to it.

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SOC 153 · Contemporary Families.64

Sociology

Introduction of how sociologists understand families and their relationship to social structures and individual agency. Topics include the family as a social construct, the role of the family in the reproduction and/or resistance of…

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Furthest right

None. Wake Forest University Sociology has 6 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Wake Forest University · Sociologybias_left_share14.6—41—
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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