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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

12%Far left92–100

48%Left75–91

38%Center-left59–74

2%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

42 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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Framing Subject

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 130SR · Sociology of Revolutions100

Sociology

Surveys radical social thinkers from 20th century revolutions and sociological reflections on 20th century revolutionary theory and practice. Major thinkers and practitioners that may be surveyed include Leon Trotsky, Antonio Gramsci, Mao…

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SOC 232 · Marx Seminar100

Sociology

Examination of Marx's core texts, such as 1844 Manuscripts, Grundrisse, and Capital; consideration of theoretical concepts, among them commodity fetishism, exploitation, technology and the labor process, colonialism and precapitalist societies, and crisis theory.

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SOC 233R · Radical Social Theory and Revolutionary Practice in the Twentieth Century96

Sociology

Surveys radical social thinkers from 20th century revolutions and sociological reflection on 20th century revolutionary theory and practice. Major thinkers and practitioners surveyed include Leon Trotsky, Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, Mao…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology has 41 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

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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