Sociology
Major theories of gender inequality; historical and cross-cultural variations in systems of gender inequality; social economic, political, and cultural processes perpetuating gender inequality in U.S. society; interrelationships between…
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Indiana University-Bloomington · Sociology
3.8% of Indiana University-Bloomington'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
0%Far left92–100
13%Left75–91
88%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Sociology
Explores the complex interrelated dynamics of modern wealth production, competition, and inequality, both within organizations and in their social environments. Exposes students to the many different kinds of inequality that are systemic in…
Sociology
Exploration of the diversity of family forms, norms and meanings over time and across social contexts. Considers the interrelationship between families and other social institutions; investigates family formation and processes of social…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Indiana University-Bloomington Sociology has 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana University-Bloomington · Sociology | bias_left_share | 3.8 | — | 79 | — |
| 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.
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