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Tufts University · Sociology

36% of Tufts University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Tufts University: 36% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
38%Left75–91
58%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
26 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

SOC 0103 · Sociological Theory88

Sociology

Freeden.BlumeOeur@tufts.ed u Caleb Scoville (Cross-listed with CVS 112) Examination of major theoretical traditions and their critical challenges in sociology. Explores diverse frameworks that address systems of power and oppression (e.g.,…

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SOC 0110 · Latin American Society88

Sociology

Examines how sociological dynamics related to race, class, gender, and sexuality impact the lived experiences of people across contemporary Latin America. Considers themes within the broader historical, economic, and political situation.…

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SOC 0189 · W.E.B. and the Souls of Sociology84

Sociology

W. E. B. Du Bois's extraordinary universe of thought as a sociologist, historian, novelist, propagandist, radical thinker, and defender of democracy. Exploration of Du Bois's inauguration of rigorous empirical study of the social world in…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Tufts University Sociology has 25 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
Tufts University · Sociologybias_left_share36—50—
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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