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Vanderbilt University · Sociology

10.6% of Vanderbilt University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Vanderbilt University: 10.6% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
78%Center-left59–74
22%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
9 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

SOC1041W · Men and Women in American Society67

Sociology

This course focuses on ideas about masculinity and femininity and how these ideas carry with them inequalities in the distribution of power and resources available to men and women. We examine how gender permeates seemingly neutral aspects…

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SOC1040 · Men and Women in American Society65

Sociology

This course focuses on ideas about masculinity and femininity and how these ideas carry with them inequalities in the distribution of power and resources available to men and women. We examine how gender permeates seemingly neutral aspects…

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SOC3611 · Women and the Law65

Sociology

History of laws in the U.S. subordinating women. Efforts by feminists to achieve substantive and procedural equity. Employment, educational, reproductive, and criminal law, and women's role in the legal profession. [3] (P)

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Furthest right

None. Vanderbilt University Sociology has 9 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Vanderbilt University · Sociologybias_left_share10.6—85—
Sociologybias_left_share15.314.5 – 16.27,243—
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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