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Columbia University · Sociology

30.3% of Columbia University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Columbia University: 30.3% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
17%Left75–91
78%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
23 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

SOCI BC3244 · Environmental Sociology83

Sociology

This course examines the social roots and impacts of environmental contamination and disasters, in order to understand how humans relate to nature in the context of global racial capitalism and the possibilities for creating a more…

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SOCI UN2501 · THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERA83

Sociology

To many observers, mass incarceration is among the most pressing civil rights and human rights issues in the contemporary United States. America’s carceral state is sweeping. In addition to the nearly 2 million people currently…

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SOCI BC3219 · RACE, ETHNICITY & SOCIETY82

Sociology

Examines the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States from colonial period to present. Analyzes how capitalist interests, class differences, gender, immigration, and who “deserves” the full rights and privileges of…

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Furthest right

None. Columbia University Sociology has 23 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
Columbia University · Sociologybias_left_share30.3—76—
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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