Bureau of Disruption

All schools · Liberal arts college

Macalester College · Sociology

17.6% of Macalester College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

0%60%
Macalester College: 17.6% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

22%Far left92–100
44%Left75–91
33%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 subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

See it for yourself

FramingSubject

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

SOCI 200 · The Old Order is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born100

Sociology

This course, which has no prerequisites, examines the deep structural crisis of the entire edifice of our political and economic system that some call progressive neoliberalism, characterized by a market-based economy wrapped in progressive…

See it for yourself →

SOCI 269 · Social Science Inquiry92

Sociology

Social scientists have many methodological approaches to choose from in their research toolkit ranging from qualitative to quantitative to comparative historical. Each of these approaches allows us to see and understand society from…

See it for yourself →

SOCI 150 · Prius or Pickup? Political Divides and Social Class83

Sociology

The Far Right in the United States has appropriated working class identities to produce an identity among the white working class. Donald Trump, for instance, intentionally portrays a large gap in highbrow and lowbrow to take jabs at…

See it for yourself →

Furthest-right subjects

None. Macalester College Sociology has 9 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Macalester College · Sociologybias_left_share17.6—34—
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.

Ask a question about Macalester College · Make a school card