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American University · Sociology

26.7% of American University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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American University: 26.7% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

17%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
50%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 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

SOCY 653 · Intersectionality: Theory and Practice100

Sociology

This course foregrounds the ways gender, race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions of social differentiation organize our experiences in society and together shape social identities, social interactions, and social institutions.…

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SOCY 453 · Intersectionality: Theory and Practice96

Sociology

This course foregrounds the ways gender, race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions of social differentiation organize our experiences in society and together shape social identities, social interactions, and social institutions.…

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SOCY 661 · Racial Inequalities and Social Transformation83

Sociology

This seminar explores issues in the social construction and institutionalization of race and racism; the historical, economic, and political roots of the process of racialization; the ideologies and discourses that buttress and challenge…

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Furthest right

None. American University Sociology has 12 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
American University · Sociologybias_left_share26.7—45—
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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