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University of Washington · Sociology

2.2% of University of Washington'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 Washington: 2.2% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

7%Far left92–100

13%Left75–91

73%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

15 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 469 · Balkan Societies100

Sociology

SSc Examination of the roots of Balkan social problems (economic backwardness, minority-group conflicts, peasant problem), the failure of pre-1945 attempts to solve these problems, the post-1945 communist failures, the causes of the…

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SOC 347 · National Social Movements: Current Trends and Explanations83

Sociology

SSc Introduction to theory and research on a specific form of social movement: national-level collective mobilizations organized for political change. Emphasizes how political, organizational, and cultural factors shape social movement…

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SOC 511 · Classical Social Theory83

Sociology

Study of classical masters of social theory: Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, their precursors, and their immediate successors.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Washington Sociology has 14 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 Washington · Sociology	bias_left_share	2.2	—	137	—
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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