Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · every published number, ranked class by class

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted.

Class record · SOCY · MCAS

SOCY 5583

Postmodernity and Social Theory · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of
97BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023
Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute
RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of
BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record — does not contribute

Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

What the workload rank is made of
BC — “Workload”1 record — does not contribute

Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallengeRMP overall
Stephen PfohlSociology Provisional1001 record6810 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Stephen Pfohl is the only instructor with evaluation records for SOCY 5583, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Stephen Pfohl

6 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
SOCY 1030Deviance and Social Control213 records74
SOCY 7716Contemporary Social Theory24 records89
SOCY 5530Studies in Crime, Deviance, and Social Control12 records90
SOCY 5535Sociology of Visual Culture: Images and Power, Resistance and Change12 records96
SOCY 1710Constructing Deviance: Power, Control, and Resistance11 record85
SOCY 5533Social Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious of Power11 record100

Other SOCY classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
SOCY 1001Introductory Sociology2657 records82
SOCY 2210Research Methods723 records79
SOCY 1030Deviance and Social Control213 records74
SOCY 2215Social Theory313 records76
SOCY 2200Statistics311 records74
SOCY 1501Global Implications of Climate Change310 records78

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Stephen PfohlFall 20230110097

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.