Sociology
Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing social problems of the 21st century and it has become well understood that prisons perpetuate injustices for those that are detained within them and for those who live in the communities that…
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Yale University · Sociology
17.8% of Yale University's Sociology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Sociology departments, it is 15.3%.
0%60%
Where Sociology courses fall
11%Far left92–100
22%Left75–91
56%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
11%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Sociology
Society’s love of sport is matched only by the belief that it is an area not worthy of deeper thought, inquiry, or critique (this especially applies in the United States). This course seeks to understand this seemingly paradoxical notion…
Sociology
There are massive and consequential inequalities between those who produce the most carbon and those who suffer the effects. In this discussion-based seminar designed for sophomores, students first review basic information about climate…
Furthest-right subjects
Sociology
Backlash constitutes a large part of the public discourse and politics in the contemporary United States. For example, the #MeToo and the Black Lives Matter movements faced strong, well-organized, and very public opposition. Yet, social…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University · Sociology | bias_left_share | 17.8 | — | 45 | — |
| 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.