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Swarthmore College · Sociology

46.4% of Swarthmore College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Swarthmore College: 46.4% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

8%Far left92–100
19%Left75–91
73%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
26 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

SOCI 035B · Anti-Capitalism, Revolution and Resistance in the "Third World"96

Sociology

This class will introduce students to the long history of struggle in the so-called third world. We will read and analyze the various movements that have sought to resist and challenge the imposition of the oppressive systems of capitalism,…

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SOCI 028 · Black Liberation 202092

Sociology

(Cross-listed as BLST 028 ) 2020 has been a tumultuous year. Economic, social, environmental and political events around the world have put global racial hierarchy in stark relief. In the United States, the Coronavirus pandemic is revealing…

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SOCI 058B · Black Feminisms86

Sociology

(Cross listed as BLST 058C) In this course, we will examine the contours of Black women's (womyn's/womxn's) ways of naming, being and knowing, their resistance to gender and race hierarchies, violence, domination, and oppression, and their…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College Sociology has 26 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
Swarthmore College · Sociologybias_left_share46.4—56—
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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