Sociology
This course examines the society, politics, history, and culture of the major indigenous peoples of the United States (Native Americans, Native Hawai'ians, and Alaskan Natives) and Canada (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit). Major topics…
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Pepperdine University · Sociology
13.6% of Pepperdine University'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
40%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
20%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
This course focuses on the social construction of gender in society while exploring how society perpetuates gender and gender inequality. Utilizing salient gender theories, students will examine how gender acts as an institution in society,…
Sociology
This class adopts a sociological approach to social movements to understand why they emerge, how they operate, and what their effects are. Students will be introduced to the dominant theoretical perspectives and the most compelling case…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Pepperdine University Sociology has 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pepperdine University · Sociology | bias_left_share | 13.6 | — | 22 | — |
| 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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