SOC 206 & 213 DISCUSSION POST

SOC 206

Pew Research Center

And watch the following video:

1. Share two facts from the Pew Report that caught your attention. Did something surprise you? Why?

2. For the video Waves of Immigrants, what was the video about?

3. The narrator in the video talks about the naturalization act, and the reasons why these happened (recall the push and pull concepts). How does the video illustrate the timing and reasons behind different waves of Asian immigration to the U.S.? Was it push, pull, or both? How so?

Answers should be minimum 350 words total. Please reply to at least one classmate for full points.

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SOC 213

Take a moment to answer the following questions suggested by Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin (1985). Later in the chapter, well talk about what these questions are intended to measure.

Following are five statements with which you may agree or disagree. Using the 17 scale shown, indicate your agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number on the line preceding that item. Please be open and honest in responding.

The 7-point scale is as follows:

• 7Strongly agree
• 6Agree
• 5Slightly agree
• 4Neither agree nor disagree
• 3Slightly disagree
• 2Disagree
• 1Strongly disagree
• ____ In most ways my life is close to my ideal.
• ____ The conditions of my life are excellent.
• ____ I am satisfied with my life.
• ____ So far I have gotten the important things I want in life.
• ____ If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing.