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r/sociology

197.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 846 upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
197.3Kmembers
846best post
1.1Kmost comments
301posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

66% 25%
Question 66% Text 25% Link 6% Image 2% Gallery 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Is sociology naturally left-leaning?

↑ 846 πŸ’¬ 417 question 2026

Does anyone else feel isolated by having a β€œsystems” brain?

↑ 726 πŸ’¬ 161 question 2026

Sociology majors, I have a question. Is humanity, like, insane?

↑ 636 πŸ’¬ 145 question 2026

Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead

↑ 586 πŸ’¬ 1.1K link 2026

My old sociology Professor went undercover and infiltrated the notorious β€œcult” Heaven’s Gate for sociological research in the 1970’s - back before t…

↑ 581 πŸ’¬ 36 link 2026

Sociology professor resigned from Cambridge after plagiarism row

↑ 399 πŸ’¬ 301 link 2026

Most interesting thing you learnt in your sociology degree?

↑ 386 πŸ’¬ 178 question 2026

When and why did sex become so taboo?

↑ 317 πŸ’¬ 86 question 2026

Are we seeing a structural shift from truth-based systems to attention-based systems?

↑ 290 πŸ’¬ 141 question 2026

What are some "underground" branches of sociology yall like?

↑ 276 πŸ’¬ 200 question 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/sociology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/sociology have?
r/sociology has about 197.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 846 upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sociology?
"Is sociology naturally left-leaning?" reached 846 upvotes and 417 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sociology.
What subreddits are similar to r/sociology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus.
What kind of posts do best on r/sociology?
Of the posts we hold, 66% are question posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sociology?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 20:00 UTC (251 avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (246 avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (183 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/sociology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sociology has 157 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 60 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/sociology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.