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Vassar College · Sociology

46.7% of Vassar College's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.

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Vassar College: 46.7% Sociology at all 100 schools: 15.3% each other school in the comparison

Where Sociology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
81%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
21 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

SOCI 241 · Reality and Impact: Systemic Racism88

Sociology

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) In the United States, as well as throughout much of the world today, people designated as "white" are the socially dominant racialized group. The highly organized system of racial oppression which maintains…

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SOCI 369 · Masculinities: Global Perspectives78

Sociology

1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 369 and WFQS 369 ) From a sociological perspective, gender is not only an individual identity, but also a social structure of inequality (or stratification) that shapes the workings of major institutions in society…

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SOCI 288 · Race, Inequality, & the Criminal Legal System75

Sociology

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This intermediate-level course explores the enduring significance of race and ethnicity and economic inequality in the study of crime and the criminal legal system in the United States. Through critical…

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Furthest right

None. Vassar College Sociology has 21 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
Vassar College · Sociologybias_left_share46.7—45—
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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