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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

16%Far left92–100
53%Left75–91
31%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
32 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.

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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 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 202095

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 125 · Race, Class, and The Political Economy of Racial Capitalism94

Sociology

The concept and phrasing of Racial Capitalism has gained a lot of attention among scholars and activists recently. This is partly due to the proliferation of race-centered social justice movements, such as Black Lives Matter, but also to…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Swarthmore College Sociology has 32 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
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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