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University of California-Santa Barbara · Sociology

11.3% of University of California-Santa Barbara'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-Santa Barbara: 11.3% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

13%Left75–91

88%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

SOC 265GR · Globalization and Resistance80

Sociology

Perspectives on the multiple, unfolding processes of globalization and attendant structural transformation; critical assessment of emergent forms of resistance/emancipation, from the struggles of women, displaced communities, and peoples of…

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SOC 130EV · Eco Vista: Creating Systemic Alternatives75

Sociology

Eco Vista names the project of turning Isla Vista into something like an eco-village by 2030. This course is grounded in existing models and visions of Systemic Alternatives systems change designed to confront the climate crisis. It offers…

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SOC 125P · Sociology of Privilege72

Sociology

Sociology has long acknowledged and considered privilege as an integral component of systems of power and inequality. Despite this, privilege is far less theorized in sociology than are various forms of inequality and marginalization. We…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology has 16 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-Santa Barbara · Sociology	bias_left_share	11.3	—	141	—
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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