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University of Alabama · Sociology

15.8% of University of Alabama's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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University of Alabama: 15.8% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
33%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
3 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

SOC 315 · Race And Ethnic Relations72

Sociology

Analysis of American social structure, demographic and institutional trends over time related to race and the description of racism. This course offers a critical introduction to the conditions of possibility for modern racial thinking,…

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SOC 405 · Gender & Society65

Sociology

Sociological approach to the study of women and men; exploration of the social construction of genders in institutions and in everyday life, feminist theories of masculinity, gender inequality, and social change.

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SOC 434 · Race, Ethnicity, and Health Disparities58

Sociology

The course is designed to provide students with an overview of race and ethnicity as it relates to health as well as major issues facing the overall health of individuals in the society. This class will provide examples for the application…

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Furthest right

None. University of Alabama Sociology has 3 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
University of Alabama · Sociologybias_left_share15.8—19—
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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