UConn SOCI 1001 Exam 1 questions
with correct answers 2025/2026
Reading - Mills - ANS ✔✔Personal Experiences and Public Issues
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without
understanding both."
-His conceptualization of the SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION allows individuals to see the
relationships between events in their personal lives, biography, and events in their society,
history.
---In other words, this mindset provides the ability for individuals to realize the relationship
between personal experiences and the larger society.
Reading - Macionis pp 2-14 - ANS ✔✔Sociological perspective. Origins of sociology. Approaches
to sociology.
If you must miss a class or section, email Professor Munsch or your TA and ask if you missed
anything important. True or false? - ANS ✔✔False
If you need to miss class for an appropriate/excused reason (e.g., illness, family emergency,
religious holiday), please contact Professor Munsch as soon as possible. True or false? - ANS
✔✔False
If you miss 15 or more reading assessment/ participation points—due to excused absences
(e.g., illness, family emergencies, religious holidays), what should you do?
A. Email documentation to Professor Munsch within 24 hours of the event.
B. Email documentation to your TA within 24 hours of the event.
,C. See Dr. Munsch, with documentation in hand, the last week of the semester.
D. Any of the above are fine. - ANS ✔✔C. See Dr. Munsch, with documentation in hand, the last
week of the semester.
Sociology - ANS ✔✔"The systematic study of human society" (p. 4)
• A social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies
• The study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short
contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes
• The scientific study of social institutions, the entities through which humans move throughout
their lives
Confirmation Bias - ANS ✔✔The tendency for people to favor information that confirms their
preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.
How Does Sociology Differ from Other Social Sciences? - ANS ✔✔•All social sciences study
some aspect of society.
•Umbrella term that includes fields outside of the natural sciences, including...
-Anthropology
-Economics
-Political Science
-History
-Psychology
-Communications
Sociological Perspective - ANS ✔✔Understanding human behavior by placing it within its
broader social context. "Seeing the general in the particular" (Berger, 1963).
, Sociological Imagination - ANS ✔✔Ability to see the connection between the larger world and
our personal lives
"...understanding the private in public terms" (Mills, 1959).
Auguste Comte - ANS ✔✔"Father of Sociology". French philosopher who founded sociology, or
the scientific study of society
-Course of Positive Philosophy (1830-1842)
-Saw sociology as the product of 3 stages of development
Harriet Martineau - ANS ✔✔"Mother of Sociology". Social theorist, first female sociologist,
translated and condensed Comte
3 Stages of Sociological Development of a Society - ANS ✔✔-Theological Stage
-Metaphysical Stage
-Scientific Stage
Theological Stage - ANS ✔✔-Most of human history
-People believed that everything, including society, is the creation of the divine or supernatural.
•Fetishism
•Polytheism
•Monotheism
Metaphysical Stage - ANS ✔✔-Transitory stage
-People believe in God but do not attribute everything that happens to the will of God.
-Religious and scientific/rational explanations for social phenomenon co-exist.
with correct answers 2025/2026
Reading - Mills - ANS ✔✔Personal Experiences and Public Issues
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without
understanding both."
-His conceptualization of the SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION allows individuals to see the
relationships between events in their personal lives, biography, and events in their society,
history.
---In other words, this mindset provides the ability for individuals to realize the relationship
between personal experiences and the larger society.
Reading - Macionis pp 2-14 - ANS ✔✔Sociological perspective. Origins of sociology. Approaches
to sociology.
If you must miss a class or section, email Professor Munsch or your TA and ask if you missed
anything important. True or false? - ANS ✔✔False
If you need to miss class for an appropriate/excused reason (e.g., illness, family emergency,
religious holiday), please contact Professor Munsch as soon as possible. True or false? - ANS
✔✔False
If you miss 15 or more reading assessment/ participation points—due to excused absences
(e.g., illness, family emergencies, religious holidays), what should you do?
A. Email documentation to Professor Munsch within 24 hours of the event.
B. Email documentation to your TA within 24 hours of the event.
,C. See Dr. Munsch, with documentation in hand, the last week of the semester.
D. Any of the above are fine. - ANS ✔✔C. See Dr. Munsch, with documentation in hand, the last
week of the semester.
Sociology - ANS ✔✔"The systematic study of human society" (p. 4)
• A social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies
• The study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short
contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes
• The scientific study of social institutions, the entities through which humans move throughout
their lives
Confirmation Bias - ANS ✔✔The tendency for people to favor information that confirms their
preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.
How Does Sociology Differ from Other Social Sciences? - ANS ✔✔•All social sciences study
some aspect of society.
•Umbrella term that includes fields outside of the natural sciences, including...
-Anthropology
-Economics
-Political Science
-History
-Psychology
-Communications
Sociological Perspective - ANS ✔✔Understanding human behavior by placing it within its
broader social context. "Seeing the general in the particular" (Berger, 1963).
, Sociological Imagination - ANS ✔✔Ability to see the connection between the larger world and
our personal lives
"...understanding the private in public terms" (Mills, 1959).
Auguste Comte - ANS ✔✔"Father of Sociology". French philosopher who founded sociology, or
the scientific study of society
-Course of Positive Philosophy (1830-1842)
-Saw sociology as the product of 3 stages of development
Harriet Martineau - ANS ✔✔"Mother of Sociology". Social theorist, first female sociologist,
translated and condensed Comte
3 Stages of Sociological Development of a Society - ANS ✔✔-Theological Stage
-Metaphysical Stage
-Scientific Stage
Theological Stage - ANS ✔✔-Most of human history
-People believed that everything, including society, is the creation of the divine or supernatural.
•Fetishism
•Polytheism
•Monotheism
Metaphysical Stage - ANS ✔✔-Transitory stage
-People believe in God but do not attribute everything that happens to the will of God.
-Religious and scientific/rational explanations for social phenomenon co-exist.
