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It’s all fun and games until….someone brings up politics at the Olympics. Sorry! But if you’ve had enough of politics, we’ve also got social science on why learning a new language is beneficial, different conceptions of race in the Americas, and gentrification.<\/p>\n
“Political Games at the Olympics<\/a>,” by Brooke Chambers<\/a> and Doug Hartmann<\/a>. Here’s some sociological work on political effects of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n “Learn a Language, Change the World<\/a>,” by Isabel Arriagada<\/a>. Turns out there are some great sociological reasons to learn a new language.<\/p>\n “Conceptions of Race in the Americas,<\/a>” by Lucas Lynch<\/a>. In this piece, we compile social science research on how race shapes social life in the Americas.<\/p>\n “School Choice Policies Drive Gentrification<\/a>,” by Jean Marie DeOrnellas<\/a>. New research in\u00a0Sociology of Education\u00a0<\/em>finds that school choice policies contribute to gentrification.<\/p>\n “Redlining Then, Gentrification Now<\/a>,” by\u00a0Jasmine Syed.\u00a0NPR\u00a0<\/em>talks to\u00a0John Schlichtman<\/a>\u00a0about the negative consequences of gentrification and how to counteract them.<\/p>\n “Is Probation the Solution to High Conviction Rates?<\/a>” by Nahrissa Rush.\u00a0PBS\u00a0<\/em>asks\u00a0Michelle Phelps<\/a>\u00a0to weigh in on probation as a solution to high rates of felony convictions.<\/p>\n “Talk with Xavier Guadalupe-Diaz on IPV in Transgender Communities<\/a>,” by\u00a0Tasia Clemons.<\/p>\n “A New Look at Nuclear Negotiations<\/a>,” by Evan Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s all fun and games until….someone brings up politics at the Olympics. Sorry! But if you’ve had enough of politics, we’ve also got social science on why learning a new language is beneficial, different conceptions of race in the Americas, and gentrification. There\u2019s Research on That!: “Political Games at the Olympics,” by Brooke Chambers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17672],"tags":[33309,12722,12802],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-roundup","tag-friday-roundup","tag-roundup","tag-weekly-roundup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discoveries<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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