Manet: A Symbolic Revolution

<strong>Ben Merriman — a sociologist by training — is an assistant professor at the School of Public Affairs &amp; Administration at the University of Kansas.</strong>

Ben Merriman

Rewriting the Rules of Art: Pierre Bourdieu’s “Manet: A Symbolic Revolution”

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Evidence

Learning from Mistakes: Howard S. Becker’s “Evidence”

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Fourth City

Locked Up in America: The Essay in the Age of Mass Incarceration

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Ben Merriman — a sociologist by training — is an assistant professor at the School of Public Affairs &amp; Administration at the University of Kansas.