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Amherst College · Sociology55.6% of Amherst College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.
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.
Sociology
(Offered as SOCI 226 and ENST 226) Creating a more sustainable relationship between human society and the rest of nature requires changing the way we relate to one another as humans. This course will explain why, while answering a number of…
Sociology
(Offered as SOCI 328 and ENST 328) This course examines the root social and ecological conditions that gave rise to the COVID-19 pandemic and that help explain the significant inequalities we observe in terms of its impact. We study the…
Sociology
From Black Lives Matter and the farmers' uprising in India, to the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran and international climate strikes, protests across the globe are questioning the social, political, and economic status quo. This course…
Sociology
The early twenty-first century has been marked by the convergence of populism, ethno-nationalism, and authoritarianism in all corners of the world. Exclusionary movements have emerged to challenge cultural and intellectual currents in world…
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.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst College · Sociology | bias_left_share | 55.6 | — | 18 | — |
| Sociology | bias_left_share | 15.3 | 14.5 – 16.2 | 7,243 | — |