Sociology
What does it mean to work? How does capitalism shape the way we work? What might work look like in the future? In this three-part course, students engage with global capitalism's past, present, and future, asking analytic and normative…
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Williams College · Sociology
50% of Williams College'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
31%Left75–91
63%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
6%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest left
Sociology
Cross-listings: AMST 358 / WGSS 347 / THEA 341 / LATS 341 Secondary Cross-listing This course examines popular cultural contexts, asking what it means to be a man in contemporary societies. We focus on the manufacture and marketing of…
Sociology
Cross-listings: AFR 255 / AMST 257 / ENVI 256 Secondary Cross-listing This course examines the relationship between structural racism and racial/ethnic health disparities. Through class discussions of readings and media images, we will…
Furthest right
Sociology
Cross-listings: PSCI 380 Secondary Cross-listing Something has happened to America over the past fifteen years. Large minorities of young adults, especially young men, are now celibate. Cohabitation has skyrocketed but marriage is…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams College · Sociology | bias_left_share | 50 | — | 30 | — |
| 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.