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Auburn University · Sociology

0% of Auburn University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

0%60%
Auburn University: 0% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
3 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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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

SOCY 5680 · SOCIAL MOVEMENTS75

Sociology

LEC. Pr. P/C SOCY 1000 or P/C SOCY 1007 . Exploration of social movements as collective action leading to different forms of social change. Topics covered include the origins, dynamics and consequences of major social movements, including…

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SOCY 3500 · SOCIAL INEQUALITIES67

Sociology

Pr. SOCY 1000 or SOCY 1003 or SOCY 1007 . Exploration of the sources and uses of minority representations in the United States addressing inequalities such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.

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SOCY 6680 · SOCIAL MOVEMENTS67

Sociology

LEC. Exploration of social movements as collective action leading to different forms of social change. Topics covered include the origins, dynamics and consequences of major social movements, including movements for civil rights, women's…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Auburn University Sociology has 3 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Auburn University · Sociologybias_left_share0—49—
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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