Sociology
In this course, students will read sociological texts that examine how race and gender affect people's experiences with state-based violence and social control. This course examines the racist and sexist externally imposed state policies…
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Hamilton College · Sociology
38.9% of Hamilton College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.
0%60%
Where Sociology courses fall
3%Far left92–100
37%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
0%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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
Sociology
In this course we will explore gender as something that is done through social interactions that uphold norms of masculinity and femininity and/or disrupt them to make space for non-binary and transgender identities. We will consider what…
Sociology
The majority of discussions and literature surrounding mass incarceration center that of heterosexual men in prisons. The goal of this course is to complicate who is behind bars, how they got there, and their experiences thereof. To this…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Hamilton College Sociology has 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton College · Sociology | bias_left_share | 38.9 | — | 54 | — |
| 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.