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The New School · Sociology

30.7% of The New School's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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The New School: 30.7% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

10%Far left92–100
32%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
4%Center-right26–41
7%Right9–25
2%Far right0–8
137 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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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

GSOC 5063 · Traces of the Multitude100

Sociology

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conceptualize "World Society" as one world-covering empire, which represents a new global form of sovereignty establishing a decentered and de-territorialized apparatus of rules by the fact that it brings…

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GSOC 6249 · Marxist Feminism: A Genealogy of U.S. Feminist Theory100

Sociology

The course explores the U.S. Marxist feminist theoretical tradition. We will consider the past, present, and future of a variety of post-1960 feminist reformulations of Marxist concepts and methods designed to theorize and contest…

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LSOC 2069 · The Afterlife of Slavery100

Sociology

"This course introduces students to the notion that the end of slavery in the U.S. was less amonumental break and rupture in American history than a transformation of anti-Blackness from one institution into others. We will explore what…

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Furthest-right subjects

GSOC 6262 · Comparative Apartheids0

Sociology

The course explores applications of the term as an analytical and scholarly framework (its historical and legal origins), its application (its development as a system of colonialism, racism and segregation) and its undoing in, especially,…

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NSOC 3745 · Genocide: A Problem from Hell0

Sociology

Genocide is one of the most daunting political, legal, and ethical issues of our time. The term was coined in the 1940s to describe the destruction of the European Jews by the Nazis, but genocide is as old as humankind. Despite repeated…

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GSOC 6248 · Sociology of Fascism(s)8

Sociology

Is fascism a threat today in the West, as it once was between the two world wars? What is distinctive about fascist movements or movement parties, when and why do they succeed in entering government and what are the tensions and dynamics of…

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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
The New School · Sociologybias_left_share30.7—277—
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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