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Duke · Sociology10.6% of Duke'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
Investigates the causes, consequences, experience and potential transformation of US prisons, jails, and detention centers. Stimulates critical thought, discussion, and research on alternative ethical positions on criminal justice policies,…
Sociology
Most people grow up in families, but few know much about them. Taken for granted beliefs that marriages should be based on love, that heterosexuality is an obvious identity, and that mothers want to care for their children, are recent…
Sociology
Explores trends in the use, abuse, and regulation of mind-altering substances in the United States. Topics include: patterns of drug use over time and across social groups; drug market creation and regulation; media promotion and…
None. Duke Sociology has 5 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke · Sociology | bias_left_share | 10.6 | — | 47 | — |
| Sociology | bias_left_share | 15.3 | 14.5 – 16.2 | 7,243 | — |