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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Sociology

7.4% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville'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 Tennessee-Knoxville: 7.4% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

6%Far left92–100

44%Left75–91

50%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

18 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

SOCI 460 · Capitalism and Racism92

Sociology

Explores the emergence of race and racism with capitalism through an examination of capitalist geographies, institutions, racialized labor dynamics, and in resistance to various forms of domination. Course themes may include racial slavery,…

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SOCI 446 · The Modern World System83

Sociology

Critical examination of the capitalist world-system as a social system, its coherence, boundaries, regions, member groups, cleavages, and patterns of conflict. Analysis of who gets what, why, and how in the global political economy.

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SOCI 616 · Advanced Topics in Race and Ethnicity83

Sociology

Rotating topics on race and ethnicity. Examples include, environmental racism; policing and race; race, terror and genocide; intersectionality; health disparities, immigration and ethnic change; disproportionate minority contact, advanced…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Sociology has 18 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 Tennessee-Knoxville · Sociology	bias_left_share	7.4	—	94	—
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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