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Grinnell College · Sociology

30% of Grinnell College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Grinnell College: 30% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
22%Left75–91
78%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
9 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 395 · 02 - Advanced Special Topic: Black Radical Traditions83

Sociology

4 credits (Spring) This class explores the many strands of the Black radical tradition, those who seek to fundamentally challenge dominant interlocking systems of oppression. Topics will include racial capitalism; identity politics and…

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SOC 295 · Arts, Crafts, & Activism75

Sociology

4 credits Fall Cross-listed as: SOC This course uses the sociological imagination and developed theories to investigate constructions of "art" versus "craft" by engaging in hands-on making through an activist lens. We investigate the…

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SOC 390 · 01 - Advanced Studies in Sociology74

Sociology

4 credits Fall The Deep Fake: Legal Conundrums of Regulating Tech-Facilitated Sexual Violence. Deep fake pornography, sextortion, so-called "revenge porn," and upskirting: researchers collectively term these and other forms of a spectrum of…

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Furthest right

None. Grinnell College Sociology has 9 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
Grinnell College · Sociologybias_left_share30—30—
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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