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University of California, Berkeley · Sociology

12.2% of University of California, Berkeley'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 California, Berkeley: 12.2% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

23%Left75–91

77%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

13 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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SOCIOL 280EE · Advanced Study in Substantive Sociological Fields: Environmental and Climate Sociology80

Sociology

We’re in the midst of a climate emergency, with climate change the most pressing problem. We need to transform our social and economic system to avoid the worst. There's still time to do this, while establishing the conditions for us, and…

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SOCIOL 131F · Four Centuries of Black-White Relations in the United States78

Sociology

This course surveys and dissects the four "peculiar institutions" that have worked in succession to define and confine African Americans in US society and history from the colonial era to the present: chattel slavery, the Jim Crow regime of…

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SOCIOL 135 · Sexual Cultures75

Sociology

This course considers how sexual identities, communities, desires, and practices are socially, historically, and culturally constructed. We will explore the tension between our sense of self and the larger social structures, cultures, and…

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Furthest right

None. University of California, Berkeley Sociology has 13 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of California, Berkeley · Sociology	bias_left_share	12.2	—	107	—
Sociology	bias_left_share	15.3	14.5 – 16.2	7,243	—

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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