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Davidson College · Sociology

44.1% of Davidson College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Davidson College: 44.1% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
12%Left75–91
85%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
26 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

SOC 355 · Queer Families91

Sociology

Instructor Kaufman This course disrupts traditional notions of "the family." More specifically, we will challenge binaries: gender, sexuality, family. We start with the general assumption that there is not one acceptable or even dominant…

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SOC 223 · Environmental Sociology79

Sociology

Instructor Bhandari This course covers topics on environmental sociology with an emphasis on global phenomena and "big picture" analysis, combined with local, individual and community-level action. Key topics of analysis include capitalism,…

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SOC 207 · Whiteness and Racial Justice75

Sociology

Instructor Marti This course introduces whiteness as central to the analysis of American society, especially as it relates to inequality, power, and social change. The goal of this courses is to make clear how whiteness is central to a…

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Furthest right

None. Davidson College Sociology has 26 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
Davidson College · Sociologybias_left_share44.1—59—
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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