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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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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Where Sociology courses fall
3%Far left92–100
34%Left75–91
59%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
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,…
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…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Davidson College Sociology has 28 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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College · Sociology | bias_left_share | 44.1 | — | 59 | — |
| Sociology | bias_left_share | 15.3 | 14.5 – 16.2 | 7,243 | — |
- 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.