Anthropology
Survey of major theoretical trends since the 1960's. Topics include: political economy and Marxism; evolution, history, and anthropology; symbolic anthropology; development studies; gender studies; colonialism and nationalism;…
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University of California-Santa Barbara · Anthropology
5.5% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.
0%45%
Where Anthropology courses fall
10%Far left92–100
37%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Anthropology
A Marxist perspective on topics such as: state formation, infrastructure, accumulation, neoliberalism, culture and class, land and labor, structure and process.
Anthropology
Anthropological approaches to colonialism, post-colonialism and power. Sites and regions covered differ depending on instructor. Topics include relations between colonialism and capitalism; rise of nationalism; race and racialization;…
Furthest-right subjects
Anthropology
Deals with the intersection of religion, culture and media in the context of contemporary, global transformations in religion. Topics may include indigenous media, televangelism, cyber-religion, new religious movements, proselytic media, neo-traditionalist fundamentalisms.
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-Santa Barbara · Anthropology | bias_left_share | 5.5 | — | 164 | — |
| Anthropology | bias_left_share | 10.4 | 9.8 – 11.1 | 9,234 | — |
- 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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